Category: Communication

He has awoken from his sleep, he has awoken to a strange place with two worlds. He was born into the world above and was taught to dominate the world below. By scouting at the top of the trees, standing on top the world and searching for prey. He is defined as an apex predator, non shall clip the wing formed by creation, non shall wield the strength and speed to escape his piercing sight.  He locked on to his prey, his hooked head and hooked feet are also piercing, he dives towards the prey and buries himself into the head using all his strength to tear it off. He flys back up and stands upon the tree and looks down to find a what he left behind. An empty shell rotting away in a pool of blood, without second glance, he turns away from the sun and flies in a direct path. He is the apex predator, shows no emotion for anyone or anything, no regard to what is beneath, he guides himself through to the limits of survival for he has the power to dominate both worlds.

He is the true link between nature and humanity. We too demonstrate our power, we too try strike fear and we too kill without giving a second thought. We enter our long duration conflicts and do whatever we can to present our power and come out on top by using his techniques. We are not better than him, we are him, we too are apex predators.

My poem ‘Hawk Roosting’ by Ted Hughes is perceptive poem with a hidden message, this poem describes nature and the natural world. The poem is a narrative from a hawk’s perspective, I know this because there are references to a ‘hooked head and hooked feet’, ‘my each feather’ and many more point towards a hawk’s features. The author also made a description of how a hawk act: ‘Or fly up and revolve all slowly’ is how a hawk will fly above its prey and ‘My manners are tearing off heads’ is how a hawk hunts. The poem describes the daily life as a hawk and how it survives and acts. Ted Hughes mentions ‘I am going to keep things like this. ‘ which supports the point that this is the life of a hawk on a daily basis. This poem does not present any technical language features or feature any symbolism. The reason for this is that Hughes wanted to be more forward and show the power the character possesses. I mentioned that there is a message hidden in the poem which was probably unintended but I noticed it. This poem describes the connection between nature and humanity, to support this is that the poem also describes that we should express our power, we use our environment to our advantage, what passes us is should be left behind, nothing should change and we should continue our path.