Pike Ted Hughes Essay -- English Literature

thruway Ted HughesChoose a poem you studied recently which challenges the lector to viewsomething familiar in a new and thought create way. superhighwayTed HughesStanzas one to four of the poem are there to expose the Pike, itsnature, what it looks like and its destiny in nature as a predator.The poet, Ted Hughes, in writing this poem challenges the reader toview nature in a totally new perspective by exploring the power and effect in it by victimization one animal in river life, the Pike, since thePike is the dictatorial species of fish in river life he designs it to full release to show the power and violence of nature. Hughes starts thepoem with Pike, three inches long, perfect development this as a start todescribing the Pike, he begins to build up the Pikes image as apredator, always being a predator with no change required throughevolution thus using perfect as another way of saying that the information superhighway was designed perfectly as a predator and will neer n eed tochange as it will always remain supreme in its habitat. Pike in allparts, green tigering the gold the use of the word tigering givinga comparison of the Pike to the Tiger, completely diverse creaturesbut in their own mankinds they are just as pernicious as each other, theTiger being supreme in the hobo camp just as the Pike is supreme in theriver. Killers from the egg using this Hughes re-enforces his pointof the Pike being born to killer, always meant to be a predator. Themalevolent aged grin the poet strongly uses malevolent to catch thereader and fully describe the evil that the Pike is designed for, evensince the wink of birth the Pikes features have already been agedwith the evil, sinister look, to show its potential fo... ...move, thestill splashes on he dark syndicate. Assuming that the poet was on asmall boat owls hushing the floating forest he hears the owls in thewoods that seems to float as he sits on this boat, frail on my earagainst the dream just managing to hear the owls as the only noise -almost as if the owls hushing the rest of the woods to be silent,adding more fear to this trip just keeping him aware of this worldthat seems so much like a dream. Darkness beneath darks darknesshad freed this meaning the darkness of the water beneath the shadowsdarkness and also the darkness of the Pike, as darkness is associatedwith evil, promptly moving freed under him, that rose slowly towards me,watching. The pike, the evil slowly raise towards him watching hisevery move, he makes it as if the pike seeing him as prey, slowlyapproaching him, ready to strike.