Ted Hughes was an award winning English poet in the 20th century. He was one of the few successful innovators that had his own personal poetic technique, of animal symbolism, as he was deeply involved in the observation of the world of creatures which in turn confronts the behaviour and existence of human kind itself. This premise of animal connotation, highlighting human temperament, was his niche, receiving immediate recognition from his audience. Hughes uses the poem "Hawk Roosting" taken from one of his collections "Hawk in the Rain" in 1957 to make a delineation of human behaviour, through vivid imagery,...
an atmospheric description of the hawk, which is symbolical to an epitome of human nature. This clearly emphasizes that even through the passages of time; human kind will prolong to abuse their sanction, to instill their idealization and moral philosophy in our minds, to exploit natural surrounding, to inflict wars, to pursue their egocentric and ambitious goals, without any obstacle standing in their way, without adapting through turbulent times. The world today is a perfect definition of the term anarchy, where renowned leaders, against mutability, live on the teachings of the tyrant, Hitler, causing dire destruction in the world.