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By Ted Hughes October is marigold and yet A glass half full of wine left out To the dark heaven all night by dawn Has dreamed a premonition Of ice across its eye as if The iceage had begun to heave ID: 503604

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October Dawn

By Ted HughesSlide2

October is marigold, and yetA glass half full of wine left out

To the dark heaven all night, by dawn

Has dreamed a premonitionOf ice across its eye as ifThe ice-age had begun to heave.The lawn overtrodden and strewnFrom the night before, and the whistling greenShrubbery are doomed. IceHas got its spearhead into place.

First a skin, delicately hereRestraining a ripple from the air;Soon plate and rivet on pond and brook;Then tons of chain and massive lockTo hold rivers. Then, sound by sightWill Mammoth and Saber-tooth celebrateReunion while a fist of coldSqueezes the fire at the core of the world,Squeezes the fire at the core of the heart,And now it is about to start.

October DawnSlide3

October is marigold, and yet

A glass half full of wine left out

To the dark heaven all night, by dawnHas dreamed a premonitionOf ice across its eye as ifThe ice-age had begun to heave.The metaphor implies that the arrival of October brings fall color to the trees.

The wine glass represents civilization.The sight of the season, coupled with the wine left outside, causes the speaker to phase into a vision of the future.Allusion to time, when nature destroyed life on earth, infers that it will happen again.Slide4

The lawn overtrodden

and strewn

From the night before, and the whistling greenShrubbery are doomed. IceHas got its spearhead into place.Ice is personified as a weapon because the coming winter destroys life. This weapon alludes to the world’s past, destructive Ice Age.Speaker views remnant of evenings event and transitions into nature’s ability to destroy. Because “man” is destructive ( as noted by the remnants of a party, Nature will triumph again by using its weapon of “ice.”

Poet creates a myth of a wedding party on the lawn to emphasize the continuum that he finds in the world of Nature—a world filled with destructive forces.The word “Whistling” infers that cold wind will soon follow; hence, the “Shrubbery are doomed.”Slide5

First a skin, delicately hereRestraining a ripple from the air;

Soon plate and rivet on pond and brook;

Then tons of chain and massive lockTo hold rivers. As the strength of ice grows, the imagery becomes industrial to mirror the destruction that civilization has caused.

“Skin” personifies winter as a reminder of what civilization has wrought.The image of battle is juxtaposed with the “delicate” skin that can be torn by the spearhead.

The “chain and massive lock” reveal the Nature cannot be defeated for the forces of cold are “lock[

ed

]” into place.

Note the emphatic use of monosyllabic words in the third line used to emphasize the force of nature.Slide6

…Then, sound by sightWill Mammoth and Saber-tooth celebrate

Reunion while a fist of cold

Squeezes the fire at the core of the world,Squeezes the fire at the core of the heart,And now it is about to start.The “reunion” is a return to Nature, one that requires the destruction of man, which is ironically induced by the destruction of nature.

Two prehistoric beasts that were enemies—just like man and nature.The “fist” creates am image of a fight, and thus another image of destruction.Man and Nature are linked again as having “fire at the core.”Brevity of final line shows the inevitable conclusion—the destruction of man when Nature revolts.Slide7

2015 Writing Prompt

“The

poetic voice of blood and guts.” In what ways do you find this an appropriate description of Hughes’s poetry? Refer to two poems in your answer. In what ways and with what effects does Hughes present violence in two poems?