Hawk Roosting vs Ozymandias plan

Question 1

Themes and links in Hawk Roosting

Answer 1

-Power and control

-Ozymandias

Question 2

How is power presented in both HR and Ozymandias?

Answer 2

-Both poems depict nature as all powerful and immortal

Question 3

Quotes about power HR

Answer 3

‘I am going to keep things like this’
‘My eyes have permitted no change’

Question 4

‘I am going to keep things like this’ HR

Answer 4

The Hawk’s control over everything

Question 5

‘My eyes have permitted no change’ HR

Answer 5

‘Permitted’ implies the Hawk has a high level of authority.

Question 6

In HR, what is the hawk a symbol of?

Answer 6

The hawk is a symbol for the violence, force and struggle that is in nature.

Question 7

How is OZY about power?

Answer 7

Because nature in Ozy proves that mankind, tyranny and egotistical leaders are a small fraction of time, and how their significance gradually is forgotten.

Question 8

OZY - The statue ‘decays’.

Answer 8

Mortality of mankind

Question 9

OZY- ‘Sands stretch far away’

Answer 9

-Endlessness of nature, infinite reign,

Question 10

Other than power, both HR and OZY are about ______?

Answer 10

Death

Question 11

How does Hawk Roosting present power differently?

Answer 11

It presents it as A ruthless power

Question 12

How does Ozy present power differently?

Answer 12

It presents human power as mortal and insignificant and how an egotist only lasts a finite amount of time.

Question 13

OZY - the statue is a ‘______ _____’

Answer 13

‘Colossal wreck’ with ‘trunkless legs’ - Nature is causing the human statue to decay as it overpowers it.

Question 14

OZY - ‘Shattered visage’

Answer 14

Verb ‘Shattered’ implying that nature is destroying this symbol of human power

Question 15

Quotes for nature as a ruthless power HR

Answer 15

‘Tearing off heads’
‘Allotment of death’
‘Bones of the living’

Question 16

HR- ‘Tearing off heads’,

Answer 16

pure violence and dominance from the hawk, dismembering

Question 17

HR- ‘Allotment of death’

Answer 17

The hawk decides who lives and dies

Question 18

HR- ‘Bones of the living’

Answer 18

Violence is instant, direct and dismembering.

Question 19

Format of OZY

Answer 19

Ozymandias is a sonnet written in iambic pentameter.

Question 20

Quotes and notes for structure of OZY

Answer 20

-‘The hand that mocked them’

The octave is about the statue, the sestet is about Ozymandias himself

The volta is about the sands rolling away

Question 21

‘The hand that mocked them’ OZY

Answer 21

Could be referring to OZY being a tyrant or the sculptor’s hand mocking Ozymandias.

Use of synecdoche in ‘hand’ refers both to cruelty of ozy but also the subversive character of art.

Question 22

Comparison in structure between HR and OZY

Answer 22

-The two poems are very different structurally

-But both use structural devices to reinforce their visions of nature/Power.

Question 23

Structure in HR

Answer 23

The use of ceazura throughout HR (commas or full stops mark the majority of its lines) means that each line is a statement.

Question 24

Context in OZY

Answer 24

-The statue is Ramses II, Shelley visited the british museum and saw the mummy of Ozymandias

-Shelley was a poet laureate and a romantic poet, she wrote about the power of the natural world and opposed political tyranny.

Question 25

Context in HR

Answer 25

-Ted hughes was a poet laureate who died in 1998. He was known as a ‘new romantic’.

-Shamanism - The idea that nature is a thinking thing (From a Hawk’s pov)

-Ted Hughes thought the poem was not about cruelty.