Hawk Roosting

Question 1

Context

Answer 1

Written in 1960

Hawk is another of his totemic animals an apex predator who is the very pinnacle of Darwinian evolution

Nazi symbol of Hitler’s familiar spirit

Question 2

Form and structure

Answer 2

Dramatic monologue in six simple quatrains

First person to personify a stinking killer just connection with the human capacity for violence

Question 3

Tone

Answer 3

Brutal tone

Question 4

Techniques

Answer 4

Repetition of long e “trees” “feet” evoke searching of the hawk itself

Blasphemy pictures of self above God