How have structural choices made by the poet enhance our understanding of the themes explored the poem Hawk Roosting?

The poem is about the first person description of a hawk. This hawk is describing what its like to be it.

The poet Ted Hughes uses many techniques to create this poem.
He uses animorphism to give this hawk feelings and thoughts. The poems main theme is based around humans and our conflict. Ted Hughes describes the hawk when he kills. He says ‘I kill when I Please’. You could see this as something that humans do. For example, soldiers in country’s like Afghanistan have killed for fun or another example is Soviet soldiers during the fall of Berlin, they killed anyone who stood in their way for fun.

The poem uses a structure technique called enjambment which is where lines run onto the next line or stanza. Ted Hughes also uses another structural technique called caesura which is a pause in the line. There is a certain rhythm that Ted Hughes uses that adds an effect to how the line is said. He uses a technique called mono syllable. Every word in that line only has one syllable. Each stanza has a certain structure. They all have 4 lines per stanza. This is all done because each stanza is talking about something else. One paragraph is describing how nature is giving him help to hunt and the other one is talking about how he kills where he pleases. He goes from a more calm approach to a more cold-blooded predator. This hawk can be described with words like violent, egotistical, self centred, a megalomaniac, vain, blood-thirsty.

In this poem the poet makes the Hawk itself a metaphor for god or a god complex. He makes the Hawk sound like it is above all and everyone. He also makes it sound like the Hawk is the highest point in society. This hawk is supposed to represent a hierarchy or a self body government. This Hawk can fly to whatever heights and to wherever it wants to because it is more powerful than all.