Hawk Roosting

Question 1

What does Hughes’s innocent savagery serve as a metaphor for?

Answer 1

His view on life.

Question 2

Who was Hughes influenced by?

Answer 2

Romantic poets.

Question 3

What did Hughes frequently write about?

Answer 3

Both the beauty and violence of the natural world.

Question 4

Where was Hughes born and raised?

Answer 4

Yorkshire, in the countryside.

Question 5

What heavily influences his writing and why?

Answer 5

Nature - he spent most of his life in rural areas - a lot of his childhood was outdoors - he enjoyed hunting, fishing and swimming.

Question 6

Who influences the violence in his writing?

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

What did Hughes go on to study at university?

Answer 7

Archeology and anthropology.

Question 8

What form in this poem?

Answer 8

Ballad form - multiple quatrains

Question 9

What was Hughes aware of about the countryside?

Answer 9

He was aware of the harsh realities of nature having been exposed to it so often.

Question 10

What does the bird on top of the tree symbolise?

Answer 10

The Nazi Party and Hitler in WW2.

Question 11

What fascinated Hughes as a child?

Answer 11

Animals - he collected toys and drew them too.

Question 12

When was he poet laureate?

Answer 12

From 1984 until his death in 1998

Question 13

Give 2 points of structure in this poem:

Answer 13

-No metre
-No rhyme scheme

Question 14

‘I sit __ ___ ___ __ ___ ____, __ _____ ______.’

Answer 14

‘I sit in the top of the the world, my eyes closed.’

Question 15

‘Between my ______ ____ ___ ______ ____:’

Answer 15

‘Between my hooked head and hooked feet:’

Question 16

‘__ ___ sleep _______ _____ and ___.’

Answer 16

‘Or in sleep rehearse kills and eat.’

Question 17

‘___________ __ ____ ____ trees!’

Answer 17

‘convenience of the high trees!’

Question 18

‘air’s _______ and the ____ ___’

Answer 18

‘air’s buoyancy and the sun’s ray’

Question 19

‘Are of ________ __ __;’

Answer 19

‘Are of advantage to me;’

Question 20

‘earth’s face _______ ___ __ __________.’

Answer 20

‘earth’s face upward for my inspection.’

Question 21

‘feet are ______ ____ the _____ ____.’

Answer 21

‘feet are locked upon the rough bark.’

Question 22

‘It took the whole __ ________ __ ______ __ ____, __ ____ _______:’

Answer 22

‘It took the whole of Creation to produce my foot, my each feather:’

Question 23

‘Now I ____ ________ __ __ ____’

Answer 23

‘Now I hold Creation in my foot’

Question 24

‘_ ____ _____ _ please ________ __ __ ____ ____.’

Answer 24

‘I kill where I please because it is all mine.’

Question 25

‘no _________ __ __ body:’

Answer 25

‘no sophistry in my body:’

Question 26

‘__ _______ ___ _______ ___ heads-‘

Answer 26

‘My manners are tearing off heads heads-‘

Question 27

‘The allotment __ _____.’

Answer 27

‘The allotment of death.’

Question 28

‘my ______ is direct _______ ___ _____ __ ____ _______.’

Answer 28

‘my flight is direct through the bones of the living’

Question 29

‘__ _________ assert __ _____:’

Answer 29

‘No arguments assert my right:’

Question 30

‘The sun is ______ __.’

Answer 30

‘The sun is behind me.’

Question 31

‘________ ___ changed _____ _ _____.’

Answer 31

‘Nothing has changed since I began.’

Question 32

‘My eye ___ ________ __ _____.’

Answer 32

‘My eye has permitted no change.’

Question 33

‘_ __ _____ to keep ______ ____ ____.’

Answer 33

‘I am going to keep things like this.’