Summary and Analysis of Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes.
Hawk roosting 8 August 2016 This is a dramatic monologue in the character of a hawk. Hughes dramatizes the hawk’s thoughts and attitudes to the majesty of creation, creating a character of self-focussed, god-like arrogance, of brutality and beauty.
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat. The convenience of the high trees! The air's buoyancy and the sun's ray Are of advantage to me; And the earth's face.
Overview This is a great poem to use with 'Work and Play', as 'Hawk Roosting' describes a very different, much bloodier, side of nature. Hughes was fascinated by the 'animism' of ancient cultures, especially American Indians. Animism is the belief that spirits live inside all the parts of nature. Hughes poem seems to conjure the fierce spirit of a kind of Hawk God.
Hughes’s hawk, in “Hawk Roosting”, for instance, retains all its predatory qualities and symbolizes the Darwinian aspect of Nature, which is Nature “red in tooth and claw”2.In “Pike”, Hughes describes the physical structure and the violent nature of the pike fish.
Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes centers around a predatory bird that is perched on a branch. The poem is told from the bird's point of view. The hawk's view of the world is highly self-involved. It.
The main theme of the poem “Hawk Roosting” by Ted Hughes is power. As we have seen before, the poem and the word “power” can have different meanings according to the way in which we choose to interpret them. On the one hand, we can interpret the poem as an ode to a spectacular animal, the hawk.
Hawk Roosting is a monologue of a hawk, a bird of prey, attacking smaller birds and eating them to feed himself. Hughes’s reputation as a poet of the world of animals to an extend relies on Hawk Roosting which is a hawk’s eye view of the world. The egoistic hawk here asserts his point of argument that trees, air, sun and earth are there only for his convenience; that the purpose of.