hawk roosting

Question 1

What quote from the beginning shows the hawk’s control and confidence in its power?

Answer 1

“I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.”

Question 2

Which beginning quote reflects the hawk’s sense of superiority and dominance?

Answer 2

“Inaction, no falsifying dream: / Between my hooked head and hooked feet.”

Question 3

What quote from the middle highlights the hawk’s complacency?

Answer 3

“it took the whole of creation to produce my foot, my feather, now i hole creation in my foot.”

Question 4

Which middle quote emphasizes the hawk’s god-like authority over life and death?

Answer 4

“The allotment of death. / For the one path of my flight is direct.”

Question 5

What quote from the end shows the hawk’s unchanging, eternal dominance?

Answer 5

“Nothing has changed since I began. / My eye has permitted no change.”

Question 6

Which final quote suggests the hawk’s belief in its eternal control and permanence?

Answer 6

“I am going to keep things like this.”