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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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| poem "Crow's First Lesson" canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: poem "Crow's First Lesson" Context triple: [Crow, hasPart, poem "Crow's First Lesson"]
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A Child’s Garden of Verses
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The Mynah Birds
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: poem "Crow's First Lesson" Target entity description: "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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A.
A Bird came down the Walk
"A Bird came down the Walk" is a lyric poem by Emily Dickinson that closely observes a bird’s behavior to explore the delicate boundary between nature and human perception.
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B.
Ego Tripping and Other Poems for Young People
Ego Tripping and Other Poems for Young People is a collection of bold, imaginative, and empowering poems for children and young adults that celebrates Black identity, history, and self-worth.
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C.
Fathers and Crows
Fathers and Crows is a historical novel by William T. Vollmann that explores the violent and complex encounters between French colonizers and Indigenous peoples in 17th-century North America.
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D.
A Child’s Garden of Verses
A Child’s Garden of Verses is a classic 1885 collection of children’s poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson that vividly captures childhood imagination and experience.
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E.
The Mynah Birds
The Mynah Birds were a 1960s Canadian rock band best known for briefly featuring both Neil Young and future Motown star Rick James in its lineup.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| author | Ted Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionAuthor | Ted Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionPublication | Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionPublicationYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Ted Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| form | free verse ⓘ |
| genre | poetry ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Crow
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
God NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Crow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dark humour
ⓘ
subversion of religious motifs ⓘ violent imagery ⓘ |
| partOf | Crow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherOfCollection | Faber and Faber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
creation
ⓘ
existence ⓘ language ⓘ myth ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| tone |
darkly comic
ⓘ
ironic ⓘ |
| workInSeries | Crow poems ⓘ |
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Subject: poem "Crow's First Lesson" Description of subject: "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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