New Article: “A Linguistic and Stylistic Analysis of Ted Hughes’s ‘Hawk Roosting'”
July 1st, 2021
By: Nahed Ghazzoul, Columbia University – Columbia Global Centre Amman
In this article, Ghazzoul analyzes distinctive linguistic features, such as, the use of pronouns simple present tense, polysemy, enjambment and deviant constructions, to unpack the ‘world of birds’ in this specific Ted Hughes poem. “This view indicates that there would always be a hawk to plague, or a dictator to rule, no matter where you are, or which time you live in.”