Hawk Roosting Flashcards
What does Hughes’s innocent savagery serve as a metaphor for?
His view on life.
Who was Hughes influenced by?
Romantic poets.
What did Hughes frequently write about?
Both the beauty and violence of the natural world.
Where was Hughes born and raised?
Yorkshire, in the countryside.
What heavily influences his writing and why?
Nature - he spent most of his life in rural areas - a lot of his childhood was outdoors - he enjoyed hunting, fishing and swimming.
Who influences the violence in his writing?
His father, who was a WWI veteran. Hughes was also a part of a generation that felt the impacts of WW2, rather than being involved in it. However his elder brother fought in WW2.
What did Hughes go on to study at university?
Archeology and anthropology.
What form in this poem?
Ballad form - multiple quatrains
What was Hughes aware of about the countryside?
He was aware of the harsh realities of nature having been exposed to it so often.
What does the bird on top of the tree symbolise?
The Nazi Party and Hitler in WW2.
What fascinated Hughes as a child?
Animals - he collected toys and drew them too.
When was he poet laureate?
From 1984 until his death in 1998
Give 2 points of structure in this poem:
-No metre
-No rhyme scheme
‘I sit __ ___ ___ __ ___ ____, __ _____ ______.’
‘I sit in the top of the the world, my eyes closed.’
‘Between my ______ ____ ___ ______ ____:’
‘Between my hooked head and hooked feet:’
‘__ ___ sleep _______ _____ and ___.’
‘Or in sleep rehearse kills and eat.’
‘___________ __ ____ ____ trees!’
‘convenience of the high trees!’
‘air’s _______ and the ____ ___’
‘air’s buoyancy and the sun’s ray’
‘Are of ________ __ __;’
‘Are of advantage to me;’
‘earth’s face _______ ___ __ __________.’
‘earth’s face upward for my inspection.’
‘feet are ______ ____ the _____ ____.’
‘feet are locked upon the rough bark.’
‘It took the whole __ ________ __ ______ __ ____, __ ____ _______:’
‘It took the whole of Creation to produce my foot, my each feather:’
‘Now I ____ ________ __ __ ____’
‘Now I hold Creation in my foot’
‘_ ____ _____ _ please ________ __ __ ____ ____.’
‘I kill where I please because it is all mine.’
‘no _________ __ __ body:’
‘no sophistry in my body:’
‘__ _______ ___ _______ ___ heads-‘
‘My manners are tearing off heads heads-‘
‘The allotment __ _____.’
‘The allotment of death.’
‘my ______ is direct _______ ___ _____ __ ____ _______.’
‘my flight is direct through the bones of the living’
‘__ _________ assert __ _____:’
‘No arguments assert my right:’
‘The sun is ______ __.’
‘The sun is behind me.’
‘________ ___ changed _____ _ _____.’
‘Nothing has changed since I began.’
‘My eye ___ ________ __ _____.’
‘My eye has permitted no change.’
‘_ __ _____ to keep ______ ____ ____.’
‘I am going to keep things like this.’
