poem "Crow's Fall"

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"Crow's Fall" is a poem from Ted Hughes's dark, mythic Crow sequence, exploring themes of violence, transformation, and the grotesque through the figure of Crow.

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instanceOf poem
author Ted Hughes NERFINISHED
collection Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
createdBy Ted Hughes NERFINISHED
explores deformation of the body and self
limits of power
relationship between violence and identity
featuresCharacter Crow (mythic bird figure) NERFINISHED
genre modern poetry
hasCharacterType trickster figure
imagery bird and flight imagery
bodily and visceral imagery
falling imagery
includedIn Ted Hughes’s Crow cycle NERFINISHED
language English
literaryForm lyric narrative poem
literaryMovement Postmodernism NERFINISHED
literaryPeriod 20th-century British poetry
mainCharacter Crow NERFINISHED
narrativePerspective third-person
partOf Crow sequence
publicationPeriod late 1960s–early 1970s
stylisticFeature compressed, stark diction
dark tone
mythic symbolism
violent imagery
subjectMatter Crow’s encounter with violence and downfall
symbol Crow as embodiment of primal forces
fall as spiritual or existential collapse
theme death
fall and descent
myth
power
suffering
the grotesque
transformation
violence
tone bleak
ironic
mythic

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