Hawk Roosting Flashcards
1
Q
what is the perspective adopted in this poem?
A
a hawk flying above
2
Q
what is the main technique in this poem?
A
anthropomorphism
3
Q
what technique is used to comment on power?
A
personal pronouns
4
Q
the hawk is…
A
hubristic
5
Q
how does the hawk speak in the first stanza?
A
rhyming couplets
6
Q
the air’s bouyancy and the sun’s ray…
A
are of advantage to me
7
Q
it took the whole of creation…
A
to produce my foot, my each feather
8
Q
now i hold…
A
creation in my foot
9
Q
i kill where i…
A
please because it is all mine
10
Q
my manners are tearing off…
A
heads
11
Q
the allotment…
A
of death
12
Q
i am going to…
A
keep things like this
13
Q
how else does the hawk speak in the first stanza?
A
monosyllabic
