hawk roosting Flashcards
poem
1st person narrative
animals serve as metaphor for his view on life-survival of fittest like humans with success
writer
Ted Hughes
title
Hawk- envied for power
Roosting-resting up high, not aggressive
first line
“i sit in the top of the wood”
hierarchy
oxymoron
“rehearse perfect kills”
perfect for hawk, not victim
significance of nature
“convenience of the high trees”
“the air’s buoyancy and the sun’s ray”
“are of advantage to me”
needs-wouldn’t have cover without
taking ultimate control
stanza 2
“and the earth’s face upwards for my inspection”
was created, now holds creation
“it took the whole of creation”
“now i hold creation in my foot”
God- ultimate power
God stanza 3
“i kill where i please because it is all mine”
contract in stanza 4
“my manners are tearing off heads”
has the ability
stanza 4
overpowering everyone else
“no arguments assert my right”
juxtaposition
lack of concern for people that got him there
“the sun is behind me”
last line
“i am going to keep things like this”
stubborn
structure
- 6 stanzas-controlled/same pace- hawk in control
* irregular rhyme but repeated sounds echoes hawk sound resignation through woods- he is in control (everywhere)
assonance
repetition of ‘ee’ sound
