poem "Crow Blacker Than Ever"
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"Crow Blacker Than Ever" is a dark, surreal poem from Ted Hughes’s Crow sequence, exploring themes of violence, creation, and the grotesque power of its trickster-bird protagonist.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crow Blacker Than Ever | 0 |
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| author | Ted Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionAuthor | Ted Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionTitle | Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
the failure of traditional myth
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the limits of language ⓘ the nature of evil ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType | trickster figure ⓘ |
| featuresMotif |
bird
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blackness ⓘ blood ⓘ body dismemberment ⓘ |
| genre |
lyric poetry
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surrealist poetry ⓘ |
| hasForm | free verse ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistRole | anti-hero ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
experimental
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mythic ⓘ surreal ⓘ |
| hasTone |
dark
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ironic ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
imagery
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irony ⓘ mythological allusion ⓘ symbolism ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Postmodern poetry ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Crow ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| partOf | Crow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
cosmic chaos
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creation ⓘ death ⓘ grotesque imagery ⓘ myth ⓘ power ⓘ suffering ⓘ violence ⓘ |
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