Crow Sickened Flashcards
1
Q
Overview
A
Hughes described crow as wandering
around the universe in search of his
female creator
The crow tries to kill himself
2
Q
Quick techniques
A
- 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”
3
Q
Context
A
- 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”
4
Q
Who wrote crow sickened
A
Ted hughes
5
Q
Form
A
A narrative poem that tales crows tale
6
Q
Structure
A
Pyrrhic metre to show nihilistic
message that everything ends,
it shows effect of brutality/ bluntness/
aggression
7
Q
Theme
A
Death
8
Q
When was crow sickened published
A
1970 in ‘crow’ collection
