TO Y11, from an incredible Y7 class who will get better results than you when we are in Y11:

• The hawk is very selfish
• The word choice of tearing suggests that the hawk is very violent.
• The repetition of I is telling us the Hawk is very selfish and doesn’t care for others. Constant repetition of first person singular pronoun suggests that the hawk is… hence Dictators are…This furthers Hughes’ message that..
• The word choice of “Creation” shows that the Hawk thinks that he is very important and he is fond of himself.
• A hawk is a vicious person and  feeds off poor and innocent creatures.
• Metaphor – Hawk is the dictator
  Imagery:
  “I hold Creation in my foot.”
  “The allotment of death”
  Just as a Hawk is vicious, feeds off poor and innocent creatures and is smart so the dictator is cruel, takes advantage of innocent civilians and is cunning.
  One of the main messages of the poem is the negative effects of a leader on civilians. This is shown when the speaker describes the nation as: “the allotment of death”. Just as an allotment is often disorganised, meant to be for growing things and producing things, is under the control of a gardener, and does not have structures so the nation is disorganised, without structure and growing death – meaning that the leader is in complete control and is killing, or ordering, the many.