Key Themes

Question 1

Identity and the self: exploring the complexity of creating an identity for oneself

Answer 1

• Wodwo **
• Hawk Roosting **
• Famous Poet
• February (?)

Question 2

Violence: violence can be self-inflicted to individuals, making them more vulnerable.

Answer 2

• View of a Pig **
• Pike **
• Wind
• Hawk Roosting
• Thistles
• Crow poems (?)

Question 3

Brutality of Nature: nature is brutal and Hughes presents this straightforwardly/bluntly

Answer 3

• Thistles **
• Wind **
• Pike
• Hawk Roosting

Question 4

Death: is simply part of nature, and humans move on/progress from this quickly

Answer 4

• Thistles **
• View of a Pig **
• Examination at the Womb-Door
• Other Crow Poems

Question 5

Darkness: there is darkness in nature regarding all its aspects (harsh reality of life for animals, death is natural

Answer 5

• View of a Pig **
• Examination at the Womb-Door **
• Other crow poems
• The Jaguar (one attempting to overcome darkness)

Question 6

Tenderness: is impossible, due to the accustomed brutality of society and the world

Answer 6

• Wind **
• Lovesong **
• Hawk Roosting
• Her Husband
• Full Moon and Little Frieda

Question 7

Creatures: helps others drift away from the uncertainty of their identity

Answer 7

• Wodwo **
• The Thought-Fox **
• Pike (?)
• Thistles (?)

Question 8

Shocking subject/matter/imagery: presents how vulnerability against nature can be evoked onto others

Question 9

Connection to the natural world

Question 10

Settings/mindscapes