1. Hawk Roosting Useful facts about hawks: Top of their food chain
roosting = birds settling down 
to rest or sleep in their nest
Useful facts about hawks:
Top of their food chain
Eat other birds and small mammals (carnivorous)
Evolved to kill efficiently
Excellent eyesight for hunting

2. What type of word keeps cropping up?
sophistry = deception/trickery
allotment = a person's garden
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.
What type of word keeps cropping up?
Why might that be?
What does it say about that character, 
considering this is in the first person?

3. What other patterns can you see?
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.
What other patterns can you see?
How might they link to his arrogance/ego?

4. Complete this starter (with 3/4 sentences)
The hawk seems to see himself as ...
Ideas you might have explored:
a God
all powerful
controlling
perfect
able to do whatever he wants
above everyone else

5. TYRANNY POWER CONTROL ARROGANCE 'The allotment of death'
Now, I want you to explain how connect 4 ideas together in a diagram. 
You need to explain how they link together in the context of this poem. 
Ask 'who', 'what' and 'why' to help - use your questioning sheets.
More difficult/challenge: show how the quotation in the middle can relate to the 4 ideas.
TYRANNY
POWER
'The allotment of death'
CONTROL
ARROGANCE

6. The writer is showing how death...
When he 
says '....'
The hawk 
could 
represent...
The bird's 
actions link 
to humans 
because...
State an idea
Use quotes
Ask how/why
(often more than 
once)
Link to feelings
and/or message
The work on the last slide 
about themes/ideas and 
symbols should help you 
to do a more developed 
answer in these areas.
pleasure, control, decides, dictates, dictator, desire, need, hunger, 
ability, God-like, tyrant, self-centred, arrogant, self-important, obsessive
self-serving, commanding, controlling, decides

7. Progress check:
Compare your first 3/4 sentence answer with your second 
developed paragraph.
You have improved your analytical skills if you've widened your 
discussion, focused on specific things, but also looked at 'wider 
issues' and symbolism.

8. "I hold Creation in my foot"
Detailed analysis:
bird kills animals here
"The allotment of death"
garden
end of life
where you grow things
contrast
living plants
The metaphor "allotment of death" tells us how the bird kills his prey 
in a place you normally expect......
This shows.....
"I hold Creation in my foot"
Clues: life, death, God. ? ? ?
The image of the hawk "holding Creation in his foot" presents us with ...

9. Some questions:
1) If the bird has "rehearsed" the killings in his dreams, what does that 
tell you?
2) Why is he so arrogant/egotistical?
3) Why does he describe the describe his body parts in detail? Why 
does he focus on the ones he does?
4) If he was a person, what sort of person would he be? Could he 
represent anyone in particular?
5) Highlight all the words related to power and control - what do they tell you about how he feels about himself in the world?