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From which poem are the following lines taken? “I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction,…

The lines open Ted Hughes's Hawk Roosting. The hawk speaks in the first person and presents its power and dominance as natural certainties.

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From which poem are the following lines taken?
“I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.
Inaction, no falsifying dream...”

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The lines open Ted Hughes's Hawk Roosting. The hawk speaks in the first person and presents its power and dominance as natural certainties.

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