poem "Crow's First Lesson"

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"Crow's First Lesson" is a poem from Ted Hughes’s influential Crow sequence, depicting the mythic bird’s darkly comic, often violent initiation into language and existence.

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instanceOf poem ⓘ
author Ted Hughes ⓘ
collectionAuthor Ted Hughes ⓘ
collectionPublication Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow ⓘ
collectionPublicationYear 1970 ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom ⓘ
createdBy Ted Hughes ⓘ
depicts Crow's initiation into language ⓘ
a distorted creation scene ⓘ
explores absurdity of existence ⓘ
limits of language ⓘ
relationship between creator and creature ⓘ
firstPublishedIn United Kingdom ⓘ
form free verse ⓘ
genre poetry ⓘ
hasCharacter Crow ⓘ
God ⓘ
hasImagery cosmic landscape ⓘ
grotesque body imagery ⓘ
hasMythologicalAllusion Biblical creation narrative ⓘ
hasStyle compressed ⓘ
stark ⓘ
hasSubject Crow learning to speak ⓘ
failure of divine instruction ⓘ
includedIn Ted Hughes's Crow sequence ⓘ
influencedBy Biblical stories ⓘ
mythology ⓘ
language English ⓘ
literaryDevice allegory ⓘ
black humour ⓘ
mythic imagery ⓘ
literaryMovement Postmodernism ⓘ
mainCharacter Crow ⓘ
narrativePerspective third-person ⓘ
notableFor dark humour ⓘ
subversion of religious motifs ⓘ
violent imagery ⓘ
partOf Crow ⓘ
publisherOfCollection Faber and Faber ⓘ
theme creation ⓘ
existence ⓘ
language ⓘ
myth ⓘ
violence ⓘ
tone darkly comic ⓘ
ironic ⓘ
workInSeries Crow poems ⓘ

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Crow → hasPart → poem "Crow's First Lesson" ⓘ