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T by Ted Hughes: " He Thought Fox"

The poem 'The Thought Fox' by Ted Hughes explores the creative process through the metaphor of a fox entering a dark forest. It captures the tension between loneliness and inspiration as the speaker observes the fox's movements and its connection to the act of writing. The imagery of the fox symbolizes the emergence of ideas and creativity from the depths of darkness.

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T by Ted Hughes: " He Thought Fox"

The poem 'The Thought Fox' by Ted Hughes explores the creative process through the metaphor of a fox entering a dark forest. It captures the tension between loneliness and inspiration as the speaker observes the fox's movements and its connection to the act of writing. The imagery of the fox symbolizes the emergence of ideas and creativity from the depths of darkness.

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College of Education for Humanities - Department of English 4th year – poetry 2nd course

“The thought fox” by Ted Hughes

I imagine this midnight moment‟s forest:


Something else is alive
Beside the clock‟s loneliness
And this blank page where my fingers move.
Through the window I see no star:
Something more near
Though deeper within darkness
Is entering the loneliness:
Cold, delicately as the dark snow,
A fox‟s nose touches twig, leaf;
Two eyes serve a movement, that now
And again now, and now, and now
Sets neat prints into the snow
Between trees, and warily a lame
Shadow lags by stump and in hollow
Of a body that is bold to come
Across clearings, an eye,
A widening deepening greenness,
Brilliantly, concentratedly,
Coming about its own business
Till, with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox
It enters the dark hole of the head.
The window is starless still; the clock ticks,
The page is printed.

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