Hawk roosting -Hughes

• What is the context?

  • Allegory for fascism
  • Reveres power doesn't outright criticise it
  • Dramatic monologue addressing silent audience
  • Personal life was controversial
  • Both wives killed themselves
• I sit in the top of the wood my eyes closed
• Now I hold Creation in my foot
• I kill where I please because it is all mine
• allotment of death
• The sun is behind me