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.
Observed surface forms (2)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crow's First Lesson | 0 |
| Crow's FirstLesson | 0 |
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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