The thought fox

Question 1

Who wrote the thought fox

Answer 1

Ted hughes

Question 2

when was the thought fox published and in what collection

Answer 2

published 1957 in the hawk in the rain collection

Question 3

What is the themes in the thought fox

Answer 3

• a struggling to find inspo.
• Multi-layered complex mind
• inspiration
• Change
• nature

Question 4

What is the tone of the thought fox

Answer 4

Starts off as bleak and depressive

changes to optimistic

Question 5

What is the structure and form of the thought fox

Answer 5

Six quatrains Pace quickens with anticipation
Iambic Pentameter
- Steady Rhythm mimics foxes movements

Question 6

What is the overview of the thought fox

Answer 6

Ted Hughes starts off with a loss of inspiration that creates loneliness but then uses anthropomorphism of the fox to put familiar images of powerful metaphysical experiences

Question 7

What are quick language techniques in the thought fox

Answer 7

Personification “beside the clocks loneliness” and intertextual allusion to Tom Hardys ‘An Augusts Midnight” that shows that the creative process is isolating

Juxtaposition “dark snow” to possibly show speakers conflicted feelings.

Fox is used as extended metaphor for inspiration in which the speaker is in awe of and terrified of.

Question 8

What is the context of the thought fox

Answer 8

Hughes had a dream that a fox came in his room and left a bloody footprint on a blank page and said to him “you are destroying us” this inspired him to write this poem

“the first animal poem i ever wrote”