Hughes - Cock Crows

Question 1

About

Answer 1

The beauteous urethral quality of nature that we turn away and ignore

Question 2

S1

Answer 2

Irregular stanza length

-Free-flowing natural energies of nature

-The Shamanic spirit

Question 3

S2

Answer 3

Enjambment

-emblematic of it being uncontained

Question 4

S3

Answer 4

Lack of rhyme
- Man’s presence post-war – unconnected

Question 5

Critic

Answer 5

Lawrence “explore the tremendous energies hidden within nature”

Question 6

P1

Answer 6

“I”

-Personal pronoun emphasises the importance of the experience

Question 7

P2

Answer 7

Repetition of monosyllabic “dark summit” infers potent imagery of a Prospero-like figure

-Symbolic “dark” a magicians cape enshrouding the landscape

Question 8

P3

Answer 8

Mystical paradigm continued with the symbolic “cauldron” “oyster”

-Symbol of “oyster” the luminosity of nature if one was to look within

-Industry in post-war England

Question 9

P4

Answer 9

“Harder, brighter, higher”

-A triplet of comparative verbs suggest a crescendoing tension

Question 10

P5

Answer 10

Yet despite this all remains unchanged “sun climbed into its wet sack” portrays how moment is gone

-Grotesque imagery “wet sack” – the landscape does not shed the same enigma as before

-Lack of respect for nature – pollution analogous to how we turn away and ignore – Plato’s cave

Question 11

P6

Answer 11

• “Holes in earth” – man’s destruction

-Symbolic “Earth” suggests how vast mans destruction has spread