Hawk Roosting Flashcards

1
Q

what is the perspective adopted in this poem?

A

a hawk flying above

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2
Q

what is the main technique in this poem?

A

anthropomorphism

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3
Q

what technique is used to comment on power?

A

personal pronouns

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4
Q

the hawk is…

A

hubristic

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5
Q

how does the hawk speak in the first stanza?

A

rhyming couplets

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6
Q

the air’s bouyancy and the sun’s ray…

A

are of advantage to me

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7
Q

it took the whole of creation…

A

to produce my foot, my each feather

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8
Q

now i hold…

A

creation in my foot

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9
Q

i kill where i…

A

please because it is all mine

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10
Q

my manners are tearing off…

A

heads

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11
Q

the allotment…

A

of death

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12
Q

i am going to…

A

keep things like this

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13
Q

how else does the hawk speak in the first stanza?

A

monosyllabic

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