hawk roosting quotes Flashcards
analyse ‘T__ s__ is b_____ m_’
‘The sun is behind me’
- something as large and important as the ‘sun’ is even behind him
- light imagery - morality - sees truth - angel - can’t see clearly when sun is setting
- Horus = Sun God - falcon head - ironic as sun is setting
- also links to evolving - the sun rotates around him
- hawk creates a shadow over land -> dark -> death/devil / sinful actions - juxtaposition with the sun and God
analyse ‘h_____ h___’ and ‘h_____ f___’ also linking ‘s____’ to the noise
‘hooked head’
‘hooked feet’
‘sleep’
repetition emphasises the hawk’s lethal features - knife imagery and predatory ability
assonance mimics a hawk’s cry
analyse the repetition of:
‘my’, ‘me’ and ‘I’
‘no’ in ‘no c_____’ and ‘No a________’
possessive/personal pronouns show self-obsessed
‘no change’, ‘No arguments’ - mimics political speakers
analyse ‘M_ m______ a__ t______ o__ h____’
‘My manners are tearing off heads’ - juxtaposes polite and violent behaviour to shock reader and show it doesn’t care about social norms/civilisation - uncomfortable imagery connotes a serial killer - ‘manners’ - human behaviour links to the careless brutality some leaders take in decisions
analyse ‘I a_ g____ t_ k___ t_____ l___ t___’
‘I am going to keep things like this’
- ‘I’ - FARMING DEVICE - beginning and ending poem with ‘I’ reflects hawk’s arrogance
- ‘am going’ - creates a sense of certainty — the hawk believes it can keep the whole world as it is - this is ironic, as the reader knows it can’t control everything - connotations to the speeches of political leaders
- short sentence acts as a conclusion - imperative tone almost as a warning of death if you go against him - like a death sentence in the past if someone spoke against the leader
- full-stop suggests finality = death
