hawk roosting

• "the convenience of the high trees"
• "the sun is behind me"
• "and the earth's face upward for my inspection"
• "I sit at the top of the wood, my eyes closed"
• "my manners are tearing off heads"
• ted Hughes was a romantic poet
• the themes are nature and power
• "I am going to keep things like this"
• the structure is in equal stanzas to represent the order he keeps the wood in due to fear
• title represents the bird at rest