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1 sty 1995 · Pike Lyrics. Pike, three inches long, perfect. Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold. Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin. They dance on the surface among the flies. Or move...
By looking at the place in my memory very hard and very carefully, and by using the words that grew naturally out of the pictures and feelings, I captured not just a pike, I captured the whole pond including the monsters I never even hooked. Here is the poem which I call 'Pike':
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‘Pike’ is one of the best-known poems by the English poet Ted Hughes (1930-98). Published in his second collection, Lupercal, in 1960, the poem describes the fish known as the pike, which is depicted as deadly and dangerous: a force of nature which obeys its own rules.
7 paź 2023 · 'Pike' is a free verse poem of 11 stanzas, all quatrains, 44 lines in total. On the page, it looks rather neat and formal, as if the poet is looking for order and efficiency. Closer observation brings a varied line length within each stanza and no rhyme.
Pike (with Introduction) This recording of Ted Hughes’ Pike was made as part of a programme called ‘Two of a Kind, Poets in Parnership’, broadcast on 31st January 1961, produced by Jack Singleton.
Poem by Ted Hughes. Pike, three inches long, perfect. Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold. Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin. They dance on the surface among the flies. Or move, stunned by their own grandeur, Over a bed of emerald, silhouette.
