"Hawk Roosting" by Ted Hughes.
"Hawk Roosting" by Ted Hughes In a successful Dramatic Monologue the voice of a speaker is an important element. Show how particular features of the language used by the speaker are effective in revealing the speaker's personality to the audience. "Hawk Roosting" by Ted Hughes is a successful Dramatic Monologue in which the voice of the speaker, the Hawk, is an important element. Many features of the language Ted Hughes uses in this poem reveal various aspects of the personality that the Hawk has acquired to the reader. One of the most distinct aspects of the Hawks personality is of arrogance. In stanza two the reader is told of the many advantages that the Hawk believes nature has given to him especially: "The convenience of the high trees! The air's buoyancy and the sun's ray are of an advantage to me." Ted Hughes' use of the word "convenience" shows that the Hawk assumes that the trees are there for his use and have only been formed for his advantage. The use of the word "buoyancy" to describe the air not only suggests the air's great ability to keep the Hawk high in the sky but it also indicates the Hawks slight cheerfulness and resilience. His arrogance is continued in the following line where he describes the position of the earth below him: "And the earth's face upward for my inspection". This metaphor suggests that the Hawk feels superior and more important
Hawk RoostingAniela Baseley 13 FO The poem is written by poet Ted Hughes. In his life time Hughes has published many poems about nature and animals.
Hawk Roosting Aniela Baseley 13 FO The poem is written by poet Ted Hughes. In his life time Hughes has published many poems about nature and animals. The poem has six stanzas, all written in the first person, with no discernable rhyming scheme. The poem represents a hawk, as it roosts on a tree top, watching over the world and contemplating life. This hawk sees itself, as the centre of the world and the best of creation. He believes he controls the world, bringing death to anything below him that dares to question his authority. The poem shows the reader that nature isn't always beautiful, and the hawk is a metaphor of humans, because humans dominate the world, as does this hawk. The poem is written with a chilling attitude to power. In the first stanza, the hawk is perched on top of a tree, awaiting nightfall. We know this because the hawk is 'Roosting.' His arrogance is already clear, " Inaction, no falsifying dream" this indicates to the reader, that even when the hawk is sleeping, he does not dream 'needless' dreams. The hawk just has focus on killing. Alliteration is then used "hooked head," this extenuates the line with a sound, as well as the hawks egoism and obsession with itself. " I sit on top of the wood, my eyes closed," conveys a sense of forceful peace, as if the hawk holds so much power that it is fearless, and can roost
A Critical Analysis of Wind By Ted Hughes
A Critical Analysis of Wind By Ted Hughes Hughes's opening line is sculpted in such a way that it gives the reader an abundance of sensations. The poet achieves amazing efficiency in the line "far out at sea all night" in that the reader is exposed to distance, time and environment. The metaphor of the house being "out at sea" projects the image of a boat "far out" feeling totally isolated. The house faces wave upon wave of inexhaustible pounding from the wind as a boat would from an enraged sea. The time scale of "all night" could literally mean all night or it may refer to the perception that the wind is so acutely intense that it feels prolonged. The words "crashing", "booming" and "stampeding elevate the wind to one of biblical proportions which sounds like an orchestra thumping out a killer crescendo. The line "stampeding the fields" accentuate the brutality of the wind attacking the natural surroundings. In keeping with the oceanic metaphor the house "floundering" evokes a sense futility. The alliteration in "black" and "blinding" impose emphasis upon the words and a heightened sense of awareness in the reader. The second stanza is a witness to the winds legacy. The magnitude of the winds power is illustrated with "the hills had new places". The ultimate measure of the winds potency is that its changed the environment which we would normally imagine reassuringly