Hawk Roosting

Question 1

Who wrote ‘Hawk Roosting’?

Answer 1

Ted Hughes

Question 2

When was ‘Hawk Roosting’ written?

Answer 2

1960

Question 3

Where is Ted Hughes from?

Answer 3

West Yorkshire

Question 4

What awards/accomplishments did Ted Hughes achieve?

Answer 4

poet laureate
order of merit

Question 5

What is the form of ‘Hawk Roosting’?

Answer 5

1st person perspective

Question 6

How is nature presented in ‘Hawk Roosting’?

Answer 6

controlled
perfect
arrogant
powerful

Question 7

How many rhyming couplets are there in ‘Hawk Roosting’?

Answer 7

only 1

Question 8

Why might there only be on rhyming couplet in ‘Hawk Roosting’?

Answer 8

highlight perfection of hawk’s body

Question 9

How does the 1st person perspective present nature?

Answer 9

egocentric
arrogant

Question 10

finish the quote : ‘I sit in…

Answer 10

…the top of the wood’

Question 10

What are the key semantic fields in ‘Hawk Roosting’?

Answer 10

status
simplicity
possession
static/rest

Question 10

finish the quote : ‘my eyes…

Answer 10

…closed’

Question 11

finish the quote : ‘inaction…

Answer 11

…no falsifying dream’

Question 12

finish the quote : ‘between my hooked…

Answer 12

…head and hooked feet’

Question 13

finish the quote : ‘in sleep…

Answer 13

…rehearse’

Question 14

finish the quote : ‘perfect…

Answer 14

…kills and eat’

Question 15

finish the quote : ‘the convenience…

Answer 15

…of the high trees!’

Question 16

finish the quote : ‘the air’s…

Answer 16

…buoyancy’

Question 17

finish the quote : ‘the sun’s…

Answer 17

…ray’

Question 18

finish the quote : ‘are of…

Answer 18

…advantage to me’

Question 19

finish the quote : ‘the earth’s face…

Answer 19

…upwards for my inspection’

Question 20

finish the quote : ‘my feet are…

Answer 20

…locked upon the rough bark’

Question 21

finish the quote : ‘it took the…

Answer 21

…whole of Creation’

Question 22

finish the quote : ‘to produce my…

Answer 22

…foot’

Question 23

finish the quote : 'my each...

Answer 23

....feather'

Question 24

finish the quote : 'now I hold...

Answer 24

....Creation in my foot'

Question 25

finish the quote : 'revolve...

Answer 25

...it all slowly'

Question 26

finish the quote : 'I kill where...

Answer 26

...I please'

Question 27

finish the quote : 'because it is...

Answer 27

....all mine'

Question 28

finish the quote : 'there is no...

Answer 28

...sophistry in my body'

Question 29

finish the quote : 'my manners are...

Answer 29

...tearing off heads'

Question 30

finish the quote : 'the allotment...

Answer 30

...of death'

Question 31

finish the quote : 'the one path of...

Answer 31

..my flight is direct'

Question 32

finish the quote : 'through the...

Answer 32

...bones of the living'

Question 33

finish the quote : 'no arguments...

Answer 33

...assert my rights'

Question 34

finish the quote : 'the sun...

Answer 34

...is behind me'

Question 35

finish the quote : 'nothing has...

Answer 35

...changed since I began'

Question 36

finish the quote : 'my eye has...

Answer 36

...permitted no change'

Question 37

finish the quote : 'I am going to...

Answer 37

...keep things like this.'

Question 38

What meaning does Ted Hughes create/want to create?

Answer 38

brutality of nature allegory for leaders in modern life

Question 39

What is the significance of the title?

Answer 39

suggests hawk is still, pensive and contemplative. not just swooping and hunting

Question 40

What did Ted Hughes enjoy growing up in rural Yorkshire?

Answer 40

hunting and fishing

Question 41

What did Hughes recognise?

Answer 41

nature as a transcending reason

Question 42

Give a quote from Hughes

Answer 42

my poems are not about violence but vitality / in the hawk, nature is thinking