Crow Sickened Flashcards
1
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Who wrote crow sickened
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Ted Hughes
2
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When was crow sickened published and in what collection
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1970 in ‘crow’ collection
3
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What is the theme of crow sickened
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Death
4
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What is the structure of crow sickened
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Phyrrhic metre to show nihilistic message that everything ends,
it shows effect of brutality/ bluntness/ aggression
5
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What form is crow sickened
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A narrative poem that tales crows tale
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What is the context of crow sickened
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- 67 crow poems at this stage
- his most controversial poem as it was a stylist experiment which abandoned many of the attractive features of his early work
- he was trying to write a “epic folk-tale a prose narrative with interspersed verses”
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Quick techniques of crow sickened
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- juxtaposition of verb and subject to add bad language “his Illness was something he could not vomit up” metaphor for mental illness
- misused verbs to show idiolect of crow
- sensory language “he felt the blow
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Quick overview of crow sickened
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Hughes described crow as wandering around the universe in search of his female creator
The crow tries to kill himself
