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My level 9 revision notes "Roe Deer" by Ted Hughes GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE
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The Roe Deer by Ted HughesIn the dawn’s early light, in the biggest snow of the year
Two blue-dark deer stood in the road, alerted.
They had happened into my dimension
The moment I was arriving just there.
They planted their 2 or 3 years of secret deerhood
Clear on my snowscreen vision of the abnormal
And hesitated in the all-way disintigration
And stared at me. And so for some lasting seconds
I could think the deer were waiting for me
To remember the password and sign
That the curtain had blown aside for a moment
And there where the trees were no longer trees, nor the road a road
The deer had come for me.
Then they ducked thru the hedge, and upright they rode their legs
Away downhill over snow-lonely field
Towards tree-dark–finally
Seeming to eddy and glide and fly away up
Into the boil of big flakes.
The snow took them and soon their nearby hoofprints as well.
Revising its dawn inspiration
Back to the ordinary
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This poem in the first- person narrative describes the speaker’s encounter with two deer while
out walking. The overriding impression is that these creatures are from a different world and
that they have a mystical quality. The collision of 'dimensions' and “the snow-screen vision of
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