Relic

Question 1

Who wrote Relic

Answer 1

Ted Hughes

Question 2

When was Relic wrote and published

Answer 2

wrote in 1960 and published in luperical

Question 3

What are quick themes of relic

Answer 3

Violence

Nature

Question 4

What is the tone of relic

Answer 4

retrospective

dark

Question 5

What is the structure and form of relic

Answer 5

2 stanzas in quintets 
trochaic metre
Second Stanza has more regular and consistent and dark rhythm The sea and time do not move in regular patterns neither does this rhyming pattern. 
Strong structure = strong sea/creature
Dramatic Monologue

Question 6

Quick overview of Relic

Answer 6

Speaker picks up a jawbone and sees other crabs lying dead on the seashore. He thinks about the life the jawbone had and now is useless cus of the seas brutality

Question 7

quick context of Relic

Answer 7

Allegory to father William Henry Hughes in WW1

Question 8

Quick language techniques of relic

Answer 8

“jawbone” represents a synecdoche as well as metaphor

Personification. He personifies both the sea and time.

cenotaph- Metaphor for something tiny gripping something huge- Nihilistic tone for life.

Allusion of sea to Shakespeares ‘the tempest’ he uses imagery to show how the sea and time corrodes “None grow rich in the sea” opposite to shakespeare.

Symbolism - the relic is a symbol of time but also carries religious resonance.