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Unit 5: The Thought Fox by Ted Hughes

Loneliness : The state of being alone in solitary isolation. Notes

Metaphor : A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object
or action to which it is not literally applicable.
A thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, esp.
something abstract.

5.8 Review Questions

1. Write a full note on the animal imagery used by Hughes in ‘The Thought Fox’.
2. Explain the poem ‘The Thought Fox’ as an animal poem. What does Hughes try to
convey the message by this poem?

3. Discuss the themes and meanings of the poem ‘The Thought Fox’.

Answers: Self-Assessment

1. (a) 2. (c) 3. (a) 4. (a)

5.9 Further Readings

Books Ted Hughes, Poetry in the Making (Faber, 1967), p. 20.
Keith Sagar, The Art of Ted Hughes (Cambridge University Press, 1979), p. 19
See Poetry in the Making, chapter 1
Interview with Ekbert Faas, 1970. Reprinted in Faas, Ted Hughes: the Unaccommodated
Universe (Black Sparrow Press, 1980), p. 197
Caroline Spurgeon, Shakespeare’s Imagery (1935), p. 339
Mark Spilka, ‘Lawrence’s quarrel with tenderness’, Critical Quarterly, vol. 9, No. 4
(winter 1967). Ian D. Suttie, The Origins of Love and Hate (Penguin, 1960), esp.
chapter.

Online links www.prismnet.com/~hcexres/style/phrases_clauses.html

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