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HAWK ROOSTING
BY TED edit Master subtitle Click to HUGHES style

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POETIC DEVICES

HYPERBOLE-Hawk presents himself as something more than human: godlike, with the sun behind him, his halo -"in the top of the wood" - hawk's superiority over all other creatures

Symbolism

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Metaphor
"my

eyes closed" - sense of security with utter arrogance showing. It appears to blind to everything outside itself falsifying dream" - showing that it has no doubts head and hooked feet" perfect killing machine in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat" - reinforcing the hawks no doubt

"No

"hooked "or

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Form
Monologue-

Hawk asserts its sense of

power
Rhyme

- no discernible pattern, representing that there are no constraints on the hawk. - Stresses fall on words of violence, for example, "hooked", kills", "tearing", "death". Frequent end stopping. Lines are quite short which adds to the terseness. to convey hawk's self-importance.

Rhythm

Tries

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THEME
how

there are some things in life that are violent/ destructive. The hawk represents a this destructive force, for it does it's job routinely as well as proudly. To add on to my earlier statement, these destructive forces do so without regret.

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TONE
violence

and arrogance

Arrogance

- 21 uses of personal pronouns "I" and "me", possessive adjective "my" and the possessive pronoun "mine" suggests superiority and selfcentredness

Also

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obrigado
Azeeman Abu

husomah

Syazwan Qayyim Furqhan Aiyad