Hawk Roosting - Ted Hughes
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- Created on: 26-01-19 16:58
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- Hawk Roosting
- Ted Hughes
- 1960
- Structure & Form
- The poem has a strong regular form which helps express the strength and control the hawk has
- The poem is split into 6 stanzas
- The first 2 stanzas are about physical superiority
- The second 2 stanzas are about how the hawk has control over nature
- The final 2 stanzas form a kind of justification for his actions
- Context
- He grew up in the countryside (surrounded by nature from young age)
- Served in the RAF for 2 years, links to imagery of killing and flying
- His work is mainly concerned with the natural world which he admired.
- Beginning
- 'And the earth's face upward for my inspection.'
- Suggest that the hawk is dictating what is happening on earth and inspecting it for anything that he has a keen eye for.
- 'I sit in the top of the wood'
- a Metaphor for being above everything else. He is on top of the food chain.
- 'And the earth's face upward for my inspection.'
- Middle
- 'Now I hold Creation in my foot'
- The hawk is more powerful than all other life, showing arrogance. The hawk proclaims, he, himself, is God, more powerful than any being on both Earth and in Heaven.
- 'I kill where I please'
- It conveys the power that the hawk holds over all other life, stating that he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants.
- 'Now I hold Creation in my foot'
- End
- 'No arguments assert my right'
- Giving the impression that the hawk's methods of killing are unquestionable. It does not need to justify its actions.
- 'My eye has permitted no change.'
- Gives a final assertion of power, suggesting that the hawk full control of the status quo in live and it will never change without his permission.
- 'No arguments assert my right'
- Ted Hughes
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