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 upward for my inspection.
My feet are locked upon the rough bark.
It took the whole of Creation
To produce my foot, my each feather:
Now I hold Creation in my foot
Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly -
I kill where I please because it is all mine.
There is no sophistry in my body:
My manners are tearing off heads -
The allotment of death.
For the one path of my flight is direct
Through the bones of the living.
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.
Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes
Maria discusses the theme of power in the poem Hawk Roosting. Useful for GCSE English students or for A Level students who could use it as an 'unseen poem'
SOURCE: Like Maria (2018), posted on YouTube, Duration: 13:22 mins, URL: https://youtu.be/LH5soh6IEmM
Tutorial: Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes Poetry Analysis
A full analysis of the poem 'Hawk Roosting' by Ted Hughes from the EDUQAS GCSE Poetry Anthology.
SOURCE: Quoth The Raven Tutorial (2020), posted on YouTube, Duration: URL: 25:39 mins, https://youtu.be/deh_p2Rhu60