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Masters of Their Domain The similarities between “The Eagle,” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and “Hawk Roosting,” by Ted Hughes, are far more prominent than the differences. There is one glaring contradiction between the two poems. The hawk is an accomplished killer whereas the eagle is just perched ready for dinner only to kill when he has to. Both masters of their domain, perched in areas of high surveillance, these two very similar birds are portrayed …

…and I enjoyed reading them. All in all, they were a lot alike, with only one real glaring difference. I thought the first one was better written in that it gave you the room to let your mind wonder and almost write your own ending. The second, though, really closed out all thoughts and endings that you could have imagined. These two different ways of ending the writings each proved to close the work well.