Hawk Roosting Flashcards
Who wrote ‘Hawk Roosting’?
Ted Hughes
When was ‘Hawk Roosting’ written?
1960
Where is Ted Hughes from?
West Yorkshire
What awards/accomplishments did Ted Hughes achieve?
poet laureate
order of merit
What is the form of ‘Hawk Roosting’?
1st person perspective
How is nature presented in ‘Hawk Roosting’?
controlled
perfect
arrogant
powerful
How many rhyming couplets are there in ‘Hawk Roosting’?
only 1
Why might there only be on rhyming couplet in ‘Hawk Roosting’?
highlight perfection of hawk’s body
How does the 1st person perspective present nature?
egocentric
arrogant
finish the quote : ‘I sit in…
…the top of the wood’
What are the key semantic fields in ‘Hawk Roosting’?
status
simplicity
possession
static/rest
finish the quote : ‘my eyes…
…closed’
finish the quote : ‘inaction…
…no falsifying dream’
finish the quote : ‘between my hooked…
…head and hooked feet’
finish the quote : ‘in sleep…
…rehearse’
finish the quote : ‘perfect…
…kills and eat’
finish the quote : ‘the convenience…
…of the high trees!’
finish the quote : ‘the air’s…
…buoyancy’
finish the quote : ‘the sun’s…
…ray’
finish the quote : ‘are of…
…advantage to me’
finish the quote : ‘the earth’s face…
…upwards for my inspection’
finish the quote : ‘my feet are…
…locked upon the rough bark’
finish the quote : ‘it took the…
…whole of Creation’
finish the quote : ‘to produce my…
…foot’
finish the quote : ‘my each…
….feather’
finish the quote : ‘now I hold…
….Creation in my foot’
finish the quote : ‘revolve…
…it all slowly’
finish the quote : ‘I kill where…
…I please’
finish the quote : ‘because it is…
….all mine’
finish the quote : ‘there is no…
…sophistry in my body’
finish the quote : ‘my manners are…
…tearing off heads’
finish the quote : ‘the allotment…
…of death’
finish the quote : ‘the one path of…
..my flight is direct’
finish the quote : ‘through the…
…bones of the living’
finish the quote : ‘no arguments…
…assert my rights’
finish the quote : ‘the sun…
…is behind me’
finish the quote : ‘nothing has…
…changed since I began’
finish the quote : ‘my eye has…
…permitted no change’
finish the quote : ‘I am going to…
…keep things like this.’
What meaning does Ted Hughes create/want to create?
brutality of nature
allegory for leaders in modern life
What is the significance of the title?
suggests hawk is still, pensive and contemplative. not just swooping and hunting
What did Ted Hughes enjoy growing up in rural Yorkshire?
hunting and fishing
What did Hughes recognise?
nature as a transcending reason
Give a quote from Hughes
my poems are not about violence but vitality / in the hawk, nature is thinking
