"hawk Roosting" Analysis

The Hawk's Secret Power. The poem "Hawk Roosting", by Ted Hughes, reveals much just by the title. We know that the poem will be about a hawk which is roosting. The word "roost" here has two different meanings. We know by the first meaning that the hawk will settle down for rest or sleep, and by the second that it will be in charge or will dominate. This hypothesis is confirmed when we read the …

…poem is a very good poem because, no matter where you are, at which time you live or under which political situation you are, you will always be able to refer to the hawk as someone well-known, to a plague or to something else that makes sense to you. 653 words Work Cited Hughes, Ted. "Hawk Roosting." The Harbrace Anthology of Poetry. 3rd ed. Ed. Jon C. Scott, Raymond E. Jones and Rick Bowers. Toronto: Harbrace, 2002. 347.