Analysis Of The Thought-Fox By Ted Hughes

Have you ever sat within a group of friends reading poems and getting flattered with the inferences and connections each one of you makes? Yes! That is the best thing about poetry; it can be interpreted in several ways. None of them is wrong, though. It is just a matter of creativity and imagination. Stumbling across three poems (“The Thought-Fox”, “Two Trees”, and “Digging”), you can see that each of them may look different. However, in some way, they all relate! The poems include various forms of creativity and art; yet, they all contribute in describing the process of writing a poem in their own unique styles.
In the poem “The Thought-Fox”, the poet, Ted Hughes, establishes a dark and sneaky mood from the very beginning with the conceit
What is special about the poem is that it is open to various interpretations and points of view; the reader can think about it in one way today and in another the next day, which is actually quite enthralling. Concerning the paraphrasable content, Paterson is talking about two men, one who had a clear image of what he is doing and took care of his trees, and another “who bought the house” who did not have a vision and messed up everything. Well, this is how it may seem from the first look; however, after being attached to the poem and reading it again, you will notice another aspect. You will notice that the poem is basically a long metaphor about relationships. It shows how a person can be devoted and dedicated to someone that they are mainly “rooted” to them; things will take their time, but once the two persons are “lashed tight”, all the good memories will happen, hope will always be there just like the “two lights in the dark leaves”, and moments will be mesmerizing just like “magic”. After that, conflicts and problems start popping up leading to separation and the end of the relationship. During this stage, Paterson uses jarring phrases such as “led him to take his axe and split the bole” demonstrating the cruelty of breaking up that it even buries the couple in “two holes”. Even though everything is just as close as “four yards”, yet it “lost them everything” and made them desperate to meet again. At the end of the poem, Paterson tries to contradict this long metaphor by saying “trees are all this poem is about”, but close readers will know that it just an attempt from him to grab further attention to the idea! He uses rhyming couplets throughout the poem to enchant the readers and give the poem a sort of a tale feeling. Now the hypnotizing part is here! Succeeding a couple of deep readings, I have come to a quite