Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Hawk Roosting – Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes personifies the Hawk in this poem. The poem is a self-appreciation. The hawk is introspecting and is in a self-complacent mood. The Hawk says that he sits on the top of the tree with eyes closed. It never dreams and nor is ready for action between his hooked head and hooked feet. The hawk proudly says that it never does any rehearsal because his killing of prey is perfect.
The hawk then says that the height of the tree, air’s buoyancy and sun are advantage to him because it can see its prey from the height of the faces upward for his inspection. The hawk’s feet locked in the rough branch of a tree. The hawk proudly says that God took whole of creation to produce his foot and his each feather but now he is holding one of God’s creations under his leg.
The hawk kills where ever he likes because he says that everything belongs to him. His body is created in such a way that his manners of attacking the prey are direct tearing off the heads and the prey is allotted death. There is no escape for prey. No one is there to argue with the hawk.
The hawk proudly says that the sun is behind him and nothing has changed since he came to this world. It never wants any changed and he says that he wants to continue this forever. Thus the hawk in the poem praises himself proudly and compares himself as God and says that nobody is there to neither control nor argue with the hawk. The hawk is enjoying its life and it wants to continue the same.

1 comments:

Alaka said...

It's about the endless cruelty

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