Pike (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ted Hughes
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Narrative/meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Nature, Death or dying, Rivers or waterways, Fishing or fishermen, Animals, dangerous, Fishes
The Poem
“Pike” is written in free verse and consists of forty-four lines divided into eleven stanzas. The title focuses immediate attention on the creature under scrutiny and on the natural world, which informs most of Ted Hughes’s work. The poem can be divided into three sections or perspectives.
The first section, stanzas 1 and 2, sets the scene, depicting the voracious, ruthless nature of this fish and establishing its green water world. In these first stanzas, Hughes maintains an objective narrative perspective in which the fish and its environment occupy the...
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