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.

Ted Hughes :- 'love song;

Edward James "Ted" Hughes  (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation, and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.He served as Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.

 

Love song

He loved her and she loved him
His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to
He had no other appetite
She bit him she gnawed him she sucked
She wanted him complete inside her
Safe and sure forever and ever
Their little cries fluttered into the curtains

Her eyes wanted nothing to get away
Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows
He gripped her hard so that life
Should not drag her from that moment
He wanted all future to cease
He wanted to topple with his arms round her
Off that moment’s brink and into nothing
Or everlasting or whatever there was
Her embrace was an immense press
To print him into her bones
His smiles were the garrets of a fairy palace
Where the real world would never come
Her smiles were spider bites
So he would lie still till she felt hungry
His words were occupying armies
Her laughs were an assassin’s attempts
His looks were bullets daggers of revenge
Her glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets
His whispers were whips and jackboots
Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing
His caresses were the last hooks o

f a castaway
Her love-trick were the grinding of locks
And their deep cries crawled over the floors
Like an animal dragging a great trap.

Analysis:-

Hughes write about the anguish that people suffer in front of an inevitable death and also the acceptance that death is something horrible and death is a final infamous decay. In this way we can read Ted Hughes poem as realistic and negative. In this he says that to personification of poem and it may that to his personality, feeling and ideas of real world.

Ted Hughes has also touched the theme of love and has focused on the impact that loneliness causes when love is ended. In Hughes poem ‘love song’ settles a scene in were the two lovers are isolated from the rest of the world enjoy in an concept of‘carpediem’ in which time stop and lovers must enjoy their love before it is too late the embrace each other, even ‘breaking their bones in order to make the union indestructible’. That is their paradise were the real world never disturbs them.

The poet goes on in the poem with some metaphor and personification to emphasis that ideas of their unbreakable union, despite the real of the world events may happen, concepts like, surgeon, brooch, assin looks … symbolic that union against time pace and the exertion  world. However, after both lovers got consumed as a flam, the scene ends, and despite their screens’ are stuck in the whole both must rest and sleep as last three stanza there lines can be interprets as symbol of death because after their ‘shaking’ both must die existed and rest peacefully.

So that in this poem we can see that to be lover loved to them but not only for lovers in feeling to poet himself. And it may be use to this poem in many adjective, similes, personification words and also refers to be melodies song and it can be nature human person into poem.