hawk- content/structure/context

• context:

  • written in 1960
  • hughes grew up in rural setting and was fascinated by animals
  • some people see hawk as a metaphor for the way people in power act
• content:

  • dramatic monologue
  • told from hawks perspective
  • hawk details everything in nature available to him
• structure:

  • 6, 4 line stanzas
  • regularity of stanzas could represent repetitive life of hawk as he has no competition in nature