Crow (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ted Hughes
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Poetry or poets, Human race, Death or dying, Good and evil, Legends, Life, philosophy of, Life and death
Critical Evaluation:
A reader coming upon Ted Hughes’s Crow for the first time will realize immediately its forceful, almost savage turning-away from English poetic tradition. In its harsh treatment of human relations, religious and moral assumptions, and the function of consciousness in the natural world, Crow offers page after page of profoundly raucous poetic rebellion.
Hughes’s protagonist is Crow—omnivorous, homely, solitary, and ubiquitous. Borrowing from Celtic mythology, the Old Testament, and various aboriginal legends, the poet creates a...
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