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Summary All poems of Ted Hughes needed to learn for GCSE

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This document contains full poetry analysis from Ted Hughes Anthology required for the IGCSE course

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THE JAGUAR
Contrast of other animals - insolent, lazy, uninterested, reduced from their physical form,
compared to inanimate objects

- “Apes yawn and adore their fleas”
- “Parrots…strut like cheap tarts”
- “Fatigued with indolence”
- “Boa-constrictor’s coil Is a fossil”
- “Cage after cage seems empty”
- “Painted on a nursery wall”

Jaguar appears powerful - deep emotion, anger, restlessness, powerful, mental strength

- “The crowd stands, stares, mesmerised”
- “Hurryinh enraged”
- “Drills of his eyes”
- “Short fierce fuse”
- “Child at a dream”
- “Eye satisfied to be blind in fire”
- “Bang of blood”


Extends to a supernatural and other worldly image - endless, purposeful, farsighted, wise,
above animalistic instincts

- “”Visionary”
- “Wildernesses of freedom”
- “The world rolls under…his heel”
- “The horizons come”
- “There's no cage to him”




THE THOUGHT-FOX
Buildup of tension - suspense, anticipation, mysterious, ominous, creates paranoia or potential
excitement

- “midnight”
- “Something else is alive

, - “Blank page where my fingers move”
- Something more near”
- “Deep within the darkness”
- “Entering the loneliness”

Introducing the fox - furtive, delicate, untamed, skittish, moving and dreamlike

- “cold”
- “ fox’s nose touches twig leaf”
- “Neat prints”
- “Between trees”
- “Bold to come”

Increasing the vividness - natural power, alive, lucid, connected to nature, supernatural

- “An eye”
- “Widenining, deepening greenness”
- “brilliantly , concentratedly”

Sudden awakening - immediate, entranced, dream-like, lucid

“Sudden sharp hot stink of fox”
“Starless still”
“Page is printed”




HAWK ROOSTING
Obsession with violence - perfect kills, calculated, precise, deadly, vicious, enjoying, views it
as a sport

- “Hooked”
- “Perfect kills”
- “I kill where I please”
- “Tearing off head”
- “Allotment of death”
- “Bones of the living”

Supreme confidence - cocky, proud, extreme narcissism, centre of attention, egotistical,
confident in abilities, in control and demonstrates total power and confidence

- Repetition of “my”
- “Eyes closed”

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