English Literature - Poetry and Poetic Devices

English Literature
English Literature - Poetry and Poetic Devices

"Now I hold creation in my foot" Of which poem the above line is an excerpt of ?


Options:

  1. Hawk Roosting
  2. Ajamil and the Tigers
  3. Dust of Snow
  4. For Elkana

Right Answer: Hawk Roosting

The line is from Ted Hughes’s dramatic monologue ‘Hawk Roosting’, in which the bird itself speaks from the top of a wood. Boasting of its hooked head and hooked feet, its perfect kills and its refusal to allow any change, the hawk declares that it holds Creation in its foot. Through this arrogant voice Hughes explores raw natural power and, by extension, the mind of any absolute tyrant who identifies his own will with the order of the universe. The poem is written in free verse arranged in six regular quatrains.

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