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 ⓘ
collection Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom ⓘ
createdBy Ted Hughes ⓘ
explores deformation of the body and self ⓘ
limits of power ⓘ
relationship between violence and identity ⓘ
featuresCharacter Crow (mythic bird figure) ⓘ
linked to: Crow
genre modern poetry ⓘ
hasCharacterType trickster figure ⓘ
imagery bird and flight imagery ⓘ
bodily and visceral imagery ⓘ
falling imagery ⓘ
includedIn Ted Hughes’s Crow cycle ⓘ
language English ⓘ
literaryForm lyric narrative poem ⓘ
literaryMovement Postmodernism ⓘ
literaryPeriod 20th-century British poetry ⓘ
mainCharacter Crow ⓘ
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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Crow → hasPart → poem "Crow's Fall" ⓘ