Edward

Edward is a psycho. He supposively kills a hawk, horse, and his dad. In reality he just kills his dad. His mother asks him three times what he has killed because she knows that he is lying about the hawk and the horse. The reason she knows that he is lying is because she told him to kill his father. She "gave counsel" to him. When he is lying to his mom about the things he killed he uses very ironic adjectives to describe them. He says that he killed his "good" hawk, his "fair and free" horse, and his "dear" father. This shows the reader that he was against the killing that he did. It seems that Edward is talking about committing suicide at the end of the poem. Whatever it is, he is definitely leaving and not coming back. He is leaving his wife, kids, and mother and he doesn't care.