HAWK ROOSTING

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HAWK ROOSTING

• BY TED HUGHES

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The Speaker
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Summary

• The hawk is sitting on a branch sharing his
  thoughts on his dominance over all other wild
  creatures.

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Literary devices used

• Imagery
• Irony
• Metaphor (the whole poem)
• Personification
• hyperbole

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Tone

• Egotistical
• Conceited
• Morbid
• Greedy
• Controlling

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Theme

• People at the top of the social ladder or in
  positions of power can be cruel or greedy, more
  apt to look down on others.
• The hawk at the top of the food chain and the
  disdain he shows for other creatures represents
  the cruelties that empowered people can impose on
  others.

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Example

• John D. Rockefeller-Robber Baron
• Adolf Hitler- Dictator

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