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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.
The poem is written in 44 lines divided into 11 quatrains. It doesn’t follow any particular form or rhyme scheme . The first letter of all the lines are capitalized purposefully to give the magnificent appeal to the Pike, in spite of the lines ending in the middle in many places.
‘Pike’ was written by Ted Hughes in 1960; the poem consists of eleven verses, each with four lines. Hughes often used animals, landscapes and elemental forces as symbols in his work. Hughes uses vivid imagery in the poem to create a rich and sensory description of the pike and its environment.
Characters. This poem focuses, as the title suggests, on the pike—not one pike in particular, but pike as a breed. The speaker describes pike and how they move near the surface of the water ...
Summary. "Pike" is a poem comprised of eleven stanzas of four lines each. There is no rhyme scheme. The poem's subject is the pike (a type of fish): the speaker describes pike in general and...
The “Pike” is a free verse poem consisting of 11 stanzas, all being quatrains. From the first strophe, the reader can see how the pike is at the heart of a culture of fear in the pond. On line 3, the imagery’ killers from the egg’ expresses the innate violence of the pike.
Ted Hughes' poem "Pike" has as its subject a species of freshwater fish that the poet used to encounter when fishing at a large old pond in England. The poet highlights both the pike's...
