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The thought fox
By Ted Hughes

The thought fox is a poem about writing a poem. The poet is sitting in a room late at night, it's dark outside and though he can't see anything he senses a presence:

Something else is alive
Beside the clocks loneliness
And this blank page where my fingers move

This presence is in the poet's imagination, as you find out in the very first line:

I imagine this midnight moments forest:

It immediately shows a contrast between the first two lines. The first line takes place in the ‘real world', after the colon we enter the realm of the poet's imagination.
The ‘presence' is an idea stirring in the deep dark night of the poet's mind and it is represented by a fox. This fox is in the midnight forest inside the poet's head; therefore it is also in the study (I don't know it is a study, I just assume so) where the poet is writing this poem. It is already alive (as is the clock, with its ticking like a heartbeat), already present, but it has no......

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Approximate Word Count: 1104
Approximate Pages: 5 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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