In the poem “Hurt Hawks” by Robinson Jeffers, the author creates the image of a redtail flying with a wounded wing. The redtail then rest, sleeping while reminiscing in his dream the freedom he had when his wing was fully functional as he contemplates his death by starvation. A human tries to aid it for six weeks but later puts it out of its misery “I gave him the lead gift in the twilight”. Robinson Jeffers represents the redtail as a noble death as opposed to humanity growing to arrogant for such a nobility. The human race has forgotten about God and out of the range of the help of God. Robinson Jeffers states God or “The Wild God” only helps the ones that ask for mercy maybe giving them an easier death like putting the redtail out of it
