Ted Hughes’ Ideas about Poetry :: Ted Hughes The Jaguar The Thought Fox Essays

Ted Hughes Ideas about PoetryTed Hughes, was born in 1939 and died in 1989, he wrote two poems, TheJaguar and The Thought-Fox. These be the poems that I am discussingin my essay and also what his ideas argon on the poems. He alsospecialises in nature poems and these are what we have also beenstudying.The Thought-Fox is quite a different poem. It wasnt written about thefox it was written about him writing about the fox (confusing IKnow). The Jaguar on the another(prenominal) hand, was about the animal and itwas describing the animal, can you tell the difference and how helikes to differ his poems You dont have to irritation about commas orfull stops or that sort of thing to Ted punctuation is not important,but the senses are Just look at it, wraith it, smell it, listen toit, turn yourself into it as he believes senses are there to helpyou. If you write a poem completely different to another poet and youare worried about your work,/ Ted believes that you should not manageabout wh at other people have written it is your own work that mattersand how you find it Do not care how other people have written aboutthis thing, this is the way you find it.With The Thought-Fox he thinks that a fox comes and walks in frontof him and sits down, so he gets this emblem in his head and it createsthings he can write down in a poem. At the start, he cannot think ofanything to write but at the send away he has created a poem. He alsobelieves that a poem and an animal are one and the same, A fox thatis both a fox and not a fox. Another quote The words have a body forit and the poem has give the fox somewhere to walk in other words thepoem has brought the fox to life.The Jaguar however, is very much different. He is actually writingabout the animal in the poem and not how he thought of what to writeabout the subject. With the structure, The Jaguar has five verses,four lines in each verse and round nine words in each line. TheThought-Fox has around the same, six verses, four l ines in each verseand about four to eight words in each verse. Alliteration, similes andmetaphors are also common in most of his poems and as I have said heuses a lot of the senses. For example A foxs nose touches and Two