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·        Hughes examined in several of his later animal poems the themes of survival and the mystery and destructiveness of the cosmos.

Hughes stated that poems, like animals, are each one 'an assembly of living parts, moved by a single spirit.

He gradually abandoned traditional forms and stated that the "very sound of metre calls up the ghosts of the past and it is difficult to sing one's own tune against the choir

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·        Hughes, himself, was just such a mythic poet. Through myth he had access to all the intensity and drama of life and death; to universally recognisable patterns of human behaviour;

Hughes once said that he began Crow as children's story²⁷: but the eventual development of Crow's character, the sardonic, sometimes gruesome humour of the poems, and Hughes' sophisticated and heretical manipulation of Biblical stories, has made Crow very much a bird for adults.

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·        Ted Hughes's Crow presents an alternative theological paradigm that rescues certain elements of Being—in particular the feminine and the demonic—often repressed within the Christian tradition.

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