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In "Relic," English poet Ted Hughes considers the circle of life. The sight of a picked-clean fish jawbone on the beach leads the poem's speaker to reflect that it's a fish-eat-fish world out there—and that perhaps the only consolation for nature's brutality is the fact that new life arises from death.
The stark imagery of the sea's inhabitants consuming and being consumed conveys a sense of constant struggle and decay. The jawbone, a relic of a once-living creature, symbolizes the remnants of past lives and the cyclical nature of existence in the ocean. Hughes's poem differs from his other works in its focus on the harsh realities of nature.
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‘Relic’by Ted Hughes revolves around the “jawbone” that the poetic persona has found from the seashore. After gripping it in his hand, he looks around and comes across “crabs” and “dogfish” lying dead on the shore. The scene depicts the cruelty of the sea that topples lives. In the second stanza, the poet thinks about the jaw that he is holding. Th...
‘Relic’ by Ted Hughes contains a total of three stanzas. In the first and last there are five lines in each. Whereas in the second stanza, there are six lines in it. The poet employs a specific rhyme scheme in the poem. The last two lines of each stanza rhyme together and form a couplet. As an example, “cold” and “hold” in the first stanza, “shells...
‘Relic’ by Ted Hughes makes use of several literary devices and those devices make the poem more interesting to read. Likewise in the first line, “jawbone” represents a synecdoche as well as metaphor. It represents the human beings in totality. The poet employs asyndeton in the second line of the first stanza. There is a metaphor in the phrase “Con...
Stanza One
‘Relic’ by Ted Hughes talks about the futility of life and the ruthlessness of the sea in the first stanza. At first, the poet introduces a “jawbone” that he has found at the seashore. It was there with dead crabs and dogfish. The image represented here depicts death and the futility of life. The first section also constitutes the overall mood of the poem. However, there is also an image of the sea. Here, the sea also acts as a symbolof death. It devours lives and ends every wish in a flash o...
Stanza Two
‘Relic’ by Ted Hughes presents the theme of vanity of human wishes in the second stanza. The reference to the jaw for this purpose is innovative. Like Hamlet in William Shakespeare’s play holding Yorick’s skull broods over the futility of life, here, in this poem, Ted Hughes holding the jaw of a dead person, thinks about the vanity of human wishes. In this stanza, the poet says the sea never touches at lives with an emotion. There is extreme cruelty in her heart that can’t be measured by the...
Stanza Three
‘Relic’ by Ted Hughes continues to talk about the sea in the last stanza but there is an interesting idea in the last two lines. Whereas in the previous stanzas, the poet personifies the sea, here the poet invests the beastly features into time. Both time and sea devours lives and casts the “indigestibles” on the shore. It is important to note here that the first two lines depict two ideas simultaneously. One is the cruelty of nature and another is the futility of the human body. The body tha...
‘Relic’ by Ted Hughes is a postmodern poem that innovatively employs the theme of naturalism. However, there is also a reaction against Victorian ideals in this poem. The reference to the sea as a beast or ravisher of lives is in contrastwith the image of the sea in the previous age. Then it was compared to a “gateway of new possibilities”. Moreove...
Like ‘Relic’ by Ted Hughes, the following poems are consonant with the themes present in Hughes’ poem. 1. Sea of Deathby Thomas Hood– Here, Thomas Hooddescribes the nature of the sea of death. 2. The Sea Eats the Land At Homeby Kofi Awoonor– Kofi Awoonorsimilarly presents the ravishing nature of the sea in this poem. 3. Finisterreby Sylvia Plath– I...
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15 de dic. de 2022 · Read the full analysis of the poem Relic by Ted Hughes below. This is a poem that talks about the metaphorical relics of the sea, which he considers the circle of life. VOCABULARY. Breakers – waves that break with foam on the shore; Camaraderie – friendship. companionship; Slacken – slowed down, decreased in speed, loosened up
23 de nov. de 2023 · 61 views 3 months ago. This short film introduces Ted Hughes's poem 'Relic' to school students studying it for their IGCSE in Literature in English. It outlines some key themes and...
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Detailed commentary and analysis by Claire's Notes of Relic by Ted HughesCambridge iGCSE: Ted Hughes.
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In today's English literature class, we analyse Ted Hughes' Relic. This poem is included in the CAIE Cambridge GCSE literature syllabus from 2023. If you hav...
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