"Hawk Roosting"‚ by Ted Hughes is a poem that focuses upon a benevolent hawk‚ who believes that the world belongs to him. The poem written in first person as a dramatic monologue‚ creates a comparison in the readers mind‚ between the hawk and an egoistic dictator. In the opening lines of the poem‚ a very negative impression is given‚ beginning with the visually threatening lines: "Between my hooked head and hooked feet". This image has a strong effect‚ because sharp claws and sharp beaks are often
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Like tall nettles‚ thistles‚ takes ideas about life from nature. The defiant character of the plant is emphasized in the very first word ("Against") of this poem. They not only resist all animal ("rubber tongues of cows") and human ("hoeing hands of men") attempts to destroy them but even attack the natural world‚ indicated by the words "spike the summer air". Further‚ they make it difficult for themselves to reproduce because their seed-pods open only under ’pressure’. Every plant‚ without exception
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The ?Hawk Roosting? poem is a very interesting‚ and distinctive description of the world of a hawk. Even though the hawk is described in an imposing way‚ it still has raw aggression‚ and horrible descriptions of killing‚ and power. The hawk‚ in the poem‚ has been given this idea that he is a god and that everything revolves around him. It is described as the epitome of self- reliance and self- assurance. ?Hawk Roosting? is written in six regular stanzas‚ each consisting of four lines. It is a rather
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Hughes’s poetry constitutes a moral project. It demands that we see our world and ourselves differently. Discuss. Together‚ ‘Crow’s Account of the Battle’ and ‘Wodwo’ by Ted Hughes detail aspects of human nature that Hughes is calling the readers to reflect upon from external viewpoints. Hughes is asking a generation exposed to the horrors of war‚ the destruction caused by the atomic bombs and the Nazi holocaust to consider such pointless destruction and how so much of it is caused by our alienation
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Line1 "Globe shrunk tight" could be talking about a microcosm which could mean the themes of the poem are reflective to the wider world. Line 2 "Round" could link with the title and theme cycles of death and rebirth because snowdrops are iconic of the spring time and death is very prominent within the poem. "Dulled wintering heart" is descriptive of the mouse and how it is dying and in the winter of its life. This also links with the seasons and death themes as it’s the death of the year and the
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the different ways in which Ted Hughes portrays nature in his poems as well as themes and ideas‚ you should consider the poems techniques? Ted Hughes is an English poet who was inspired by nature at his homeland in Yorkshire and wrote countless poems on this topic. I have studied several poems (Thistles‚ The thought fox‚ the jaguar‚ the horses‚ Hawk roosting‚ Pike‚ and Ghost Crabs). Within these poems I am going to compare the ways and techniques in which Ted Hughes portrays nature using poetic
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“We came in spastic‚ like tameless horses‚ we left in plastic‚ as numbered corpses‚” “Goodnight Saigon”‚ by Billy Joel. Multitudinous wars left numerous soldiers with PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. One war that was most common for leaving people with PTSD is the Vietnam War. Terry’s father from‚ ” Stop the Sun” suffered through PTSD after the Vietnam War. During the Vietnam War many soldiers died fighting for this nation making the ones who did survive suffer from PTSD and survivor’s Guilt
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COMMENATRY/ ANALYSIS ON THE POEM “THE PIKE” BY TED HUGHES: The poem begins with a description of a baby pike‚ and we are given the impression that right from the very moment of birth this creature is in possession of some pretty chilling characteristics. “…Killers from the egg…” In the first three stanzas‚ the persona sets the scene and describes the voracious‚ ruthless nature of this fish. In these stanzas‚ the fish and its environment occupy the center of attention. “Pike‚ three inches long
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The Road to North America Bull thistle is native to Europe‚ Asia and Africa. But can be found on all continents except Antarctica. There are many speculations on when it made its way to North America but it is thought to have made its way to Eastern North America in the Colonial times. It started showing up in the Western part is the late 1800’s or early 1900’s. It is considered a noxious weed because it may outcompete the native plants to that area. Causing the native plants to cease to exist
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Love and Death (Analysis of “When You are Old” and “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” by W.B.Yeats) Ⅰ. Love In William Butler Yeats poem "When You Are Old‚" an anonymous narrator requests of a former lover to remember her youth and his love for her‚ creating a surreal sense of mystery that only reveals some shadows of his own past love life. Yeats’ diction changes as the poem progresses from stanza to stanza. In the first stanza‚ I believe the narrator is a man‚ who wrote this poem for his
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