Paul Shepard on Birds. Shepard is one of the most competent scholars on animals and what they represent. This link here is optional reading but you might find some of this very interesting.

Poems:

1. D. H. Lawrence on Self-Pity

2. Penelope's Dream from The Odyssey, Book XIXwhere Penelope asks the beggar (Odysseus in disguise) to interpret her dream.

3. Death in the Great Hall from The Odyssey,Book XXII where Odysseus and his son Telemakhos (and two others) cut down the brazen suitors.

4. Ted Hughes, "Hawk Roosting"

5. The Sonnet: William Butler Yeats "Leda and the Swan"

6. Robinson Jeffers, "Hurt Hawks"

7. Ted Hughes, "Crow's First lesson"

8. Gary Miranda, "The One that Got Away"

9. "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens

10. Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven

11. James Wright: "Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota"

12. Robinson Jeffers: "Vulture"