Hawk Roosting

Question 1

introduces narrator as proud and self-centred

Answer 1

I sit in the top of the wood

Question 2

narrator is arrogant as they do this

Answer 2

my eyes closed

Question 3

the Hawk does nothing but believes that it is in the right to do so

Answer 3

inaction, no falsifying dream

Question 4

the hawk has power over everything

Answer 4

hooked head and hooked feet

Question 5

the Hawk believes that it is perfection, egotistical

Answer 5

in sleep rehearse perfect kills

Question 6

the hawk believes everything is in its favour

Answer 6

convenience of the high trees!

Question 7

the Hawk can fly and look down on all things ‘below’ it

Answer 7

upward for my inspection

Question 7

list of advantageous things

Answer 7

air’s buoyancy…sun’s ray

Question 8

the Hawk believes all of creation was required to create the Hawk

Answer 8

feet are locked…whole of Creation

Question 9

repetition of this word used to show how the hawks possessive nature creates an impression of arrogance

Answer 9

my foot, my each feather

Question 10

tables have turned, hawk is in control

Answer 10

Now I hold Creation in my foot

Question 11

the hawk is at the top of the food chain

Answer 11

I kill where I please

Question 12

the Hawk believes it is rightfully owner of everything

Answer 12

because it is all mine.

Question 13

The Hawk has a predatory nature, also reflects human nature?

Answer 13

My manners are tearing off heads

Question 14

juxtaposition/oxymoronic, life and death shows that life is fragile and precious

Answer 14

allotment of death

Question 15

The hawk thinks that it deserves to be in control

Answer 15

assert my right

Question 16

the hawk has the sun backing it

Answer 16

the sun is behind me

Question 17

past present and future of the Hawks intentions to keep everything as is

Answer 17

Nothing has change…no change…keep things like this

Question 18

what does the form show

Answer 18

quatrains show the regularity and order of nature how everything has its place

Question 19

what do the rhyming couplets show

Answer 19

the hawk has power over the lines

Question 20

what is the form and what does it show

Answer 20

free verse used to show how the freedom of the hawk

Question 21

why did the poet choose to write about the hawk

Answer 21

he often caught wild animals as a child