Ted Hughes :-The Crow’s falls

 

 

 

Crow’s Falls

When Crow was white he decided the sun was too white.
He decided it glared much too whitely.
He decided to attack it and defeat it.

He got his strength up flush and in full glitter.
He clawed and fluffed his rage up.
He aimed his beak direct at the sun’s centre. He laughed himself to the centre of himself And attacked. At his battle cry trees grew suddenly old,
Shadows flattened. But the sun brightened -
It brightened, and Crow returned charred black.

He opened his mouth but what came out was charred black. “Up there,” he managed,
“Where white is black and black is white, I won.”

– Ted Hughes

· Analysis

Thought crow Hughes creates a unique mythology with a scavenger as the reader can see the description of a crow can identify all the characteristic of a crow with himself at times. In this poem Hughes want to related how human beings trap themselves in different situation because as free, but with introspection. We can see that many times in poem use to similes and adjective words. We are trapped by something whether it is fate, society, or ourselves. We are trapped, still like crow of poem. We can see that to poem in the world as limited. Yet, we still wish to be unique and individualistic in our ways hoping that we

can escape the monotony of the world.

Hughes in crow’s fall there for makes it clear that a crow has many characteristic in common with man like the crow a man is sometimes constructive and sometimes distractive in personality. Here Hughes has gives this characteristic which emerges thought, the medium of crow, ‘life and songs’ plus Hughes own comparison and details of mythology archetypes, the comparison of a crow with trickster figure common in many mythologies which is nature to poem. In this poem, poet wants to show how man victory, wants to be superior that poses many vices and many times are defied by jealous pride and arrogance. He says that to supposes that all human attack better and superior things and generally people in their jealousy lose emphatically, and it may be that attempt to save face by claiming a victory, when the reality is that we are charred and blackened in defeat. He says that to this lines refer to ‘when crow was white, he decided the sun was two white’, and again in the line ‘But the sun brightened’ it may be that to brightened and crow whitened, charred black’. He says that is perhaps a little bit of crow in all of us for example if we can claim that black is white than we can claim that defeat is victory by the same tipsy curvy logic of a crow.

The ridicules reasoning and misplaced pride and optimism of such a daring like crow for example.. ‘Crow decides that the sun is.. Glow much too whitely…’ So that in ideas of Hughes in this poem such images of different between black and white.

In the poem end that crow inevitably loses, and returning that to be ‘charred black’. However, the crow interprets events thus ‘up there white is black and black is white, I won.’ So that in this poem we can see that to animates human qualities and images of personality of ideas in poem.