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Name the collection in which "The Thought Fox" was published and give its year. Why is the poem often called Hughes's ars poetica?
Ars poetica means "the art of poetry".
What two things does the fox represent in the poem?
Think of the animal in the forest and the idea in the mind.
In which collection was "The Thought Fox" first published?
It was his first book, from 1957.
How many stanzas does "The Thought Fox" have?
Count the four-line stanzas from the clock to the printed page.
Hughes said that the fox comes alive again whenever the poem is read. Explain which techniques make this possible, and evaluate whether the claim is justified.
Think about tense, fragmentation, sentence movement, sensory order and the ending.
Some readers think a poem about writing poetry is bound to be self-absorbed. Write a balanced evaluative paragraph on whether this criticism applies to "The Thought Fox".
Separate "self-reflexive" (about its own making) from "self-absorbed" (preoccupied with the self), and test the poem against each.
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