Hawk Roosting Flashcards
Hawk Roosting - Between my hooked head and hooked feet:
Or in sleep and rehearse perfect kills and eat.
The hawk thinks about killing in it’s sleep. “Perfect” implies pleasure. The rhyming emphasises the perfection. Repetition of “hooked” shows Hawk’s violent potential.
Hawk Roosting - It took the whole of Creation
To produce my foot, my each feather:
Now I hold Creation in my foot.
Hawk believes it’s a master piece. The capital c in “Creation” could be a reference to God. Ends with a reversal, Hawk was created by God, now better than.
Hawk Roosting - I kill where I please because it is all mine.
Monosyllabic language suggests confidence. End stopped line implies the Hawk’s say is final.
Hawk Roosting - Nothing has changed since I began.
My eye has permitted no change.
I am going to keep things like this.
Everything is indicative of power. Each line is end stopped, straight forward. Cyclic structure, Hawk is surrounding everything.
