"The Windhover" Part 2

I made this post on the FB group, but just wanted to put it here as well:

I wanted to post again to draw distinctions between the depiction of animals in “The Windhover” and in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. After Alice encounters a clan of animals early in the book, Alice mentions how her pet could eat all of the animals present. In response, “some of the birds hurried off at once: one old Magpie began wrapping itself up very carefully, remarking, “I really must be getting home: the night-air doesn’t suit my throat!” and a Canary called out in a trembling voice to its children, “Come away, my dears! It’s high time you were all in bed!” On various pretexts they all moved off” (Carroll 53). Clearly the birds are portrayed as cowardly and comical, which is vastly different from the “daylight’s dauphin” featured in the Hopkins poem. The majesty associated with the falcon in “The Windhover” (as described in my previous post regarding Christ) shows an entirely different depiction of animals.