English GCSE - Hawk Roosting
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- Hawk Roosting - Ted Hughes
- What's it about?
- A hawk boasting about its power. It thinks it is the most important creature in the world. This could be a metaphor for the behaviour of politicians.
- Form
- It is a dramatic monologue to make the narrators argument direct.
- Structure
- Ends with a confident statement about the future. Emphasises the hawks sense of power. Some repitition to emphasise key ideas.
- Formal language
- Implies a strong sense of pride and superiority.
- Personification
- Earth is made out to be a humble subject of the hawk.
- Self-centred language
- Uses a lot of first person pronouns to show how important the hawk is in its world.
- Violent language
- Contains strong images of violence and death to show how good the hawk is at killing but not being emotional about it.
- Power
- The hawk is presented as powerful and destructive.
- Arrogance
- The hawk's attitude is egotistical as it thinks its perfect.
- Comparisons
- Causes of conflict - The Yellow Palm, The Right Word; Nature - The Falling Leaves; Death - Mametz Wood
- What's it about?
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