Hawk Roosting

Question 1

Power quotes hawk roosting

Answer 1

“I sit in the top of the wood; my eyes closed”
“No falsifying dream”
“The convenience of the high trees”
“The earth’s face upward for my inspection”
“Now i hold creation in my foot”
“”I kill where i please because it is all mine”
“”No arguments assert my right”
“The sun is behind me”
“Nothing has changed since I began”
“My eye has permitted no change”
“I am going to keep things like this”

Question 2

Nature quotes hawk roosting

Answer 2

“The convenience of the high trees”
“The air’s buoyancy and sun rays”
“The earth’s face upward for my inspection”
“Now i hold creation in my foot”
“I kill where i please because it all mine”
“The sun is behind me”

Question 3

Religion quotes hawk roosting

Answer 3

“I sit in the tops of the wood; my eyes closed”
“The air’s buoyancy and the sun’s ray”
“Are of advantage to me”
“The earth’s face upward for my inspection”
“It took the whole of creation”
“To produce my foot, my each feather”
“Now i hold creation in my foot”
“I kill where i please because it is all mine”
“The allotment of death”
“For the one path my flight is direct”
“No arguments assert my right”
“The sun is behind me”
“Nothing has changed since i began”
“My eye has permitted no change”
“I am going to keep things like this”

Question 4

Death quotes hawk roosting

Answer 4

“Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat”
“I kill where i please because it is all mine”
“My manners are tearing off heads”
“The allotment of death”
“Through the bones of the living”

Question 5

Form and structure hawk roosting

Answer 5

6 quatrains = only structure, also use extensive end-stopped lines = provide poem with order
No rhyme scheme or strict metre
Written in free verse = reflecting hawk’s instinctual, highly calibrated movements
No rhyme scheme = poem is unpredictable and rough like hawk’s being

Question 6

Poet hawk roosting

Answer 6

Ted Hughes