The poem
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.
The convenience of the high trees! The air's buoyancy and the sun's ray Are of advantage to me; And the earth's face upward for my inspection.
My feet are locked upon the rough bark. It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot
Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly - I kill where I please because it is all mine. There is no sophistry in my body: My manners are tearing off heads -
The allotment of death. For the one path of my flight is direct Through the bones of the living. No arguments assert my right:
The sun is behind me. Nothing has changed since I began. My eye has permitted no change. I am going to keep things like this.
In this poem the writer suggests that the hawk is very proud. It also shows that the hawk has been mislead in alot of cases. He believes things that cannot be true. Example: He belives that his area will never change, also he believes that the world revolves around him. I think the writer is very interested in the way animals think and in this poem he shows that the hawk is proud but also dumb.
this poem is really great
an abundant but stingy criticism of the present world-order governed by the despotic megalomaniacs.Having maintained a stsrk affinity with Tennyson's The Eagle Hawk Roosting and Blake's The Tiger,Hawk Roosting connectsthe temporal &cerebral images brilliantly.