Crow’s First Lesson
Ted Hughes * Track #5 On Crow
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- #1Two Legends
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- #2Lineage
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- #3Examination at the Womb-Door
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- #4Crow and Mama
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- #5Crow’s First Lesson
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- #6Crow Alights
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- #7That Moment
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- #8Crow’s Tyrannosaurus
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- #9Crow Communes
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- #10Crow’s Theology
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- #11Crow’s Fall
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- #12Crow and the Birds
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- #13In Laughter
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- #14Crow Goes Hunting
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- #15Crow’s Elephant Totem Song
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- #16Owl’s Song
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- #17Crow Blacker Than Ever
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- #18Crow Sickened
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- #19Crow and the Sea
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- #20Crow’s Last Stand
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- #21Apple Tragedy
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- #22Fragment of an Ancient Tablet
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- #23Lovesong
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- #24Littleblood
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- #25The Scream
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Crow's First Lesson by Ted Hughes
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This poem acts as a replica of the creation story, wherein God, attempts to teach Crow how to say, or express ‘Love’, and in each time that Crow fails, he creates another aspect of the world that would usually be created by God in the Biblical creation story.
As a poem that originates from the afte...
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God tried to teach Crow how to talk.
'Love,' said God. 'Say, Love.'
Crow gaped, and the white shark crashed into the sea
And went rolling downwards, discovering its own depth.
'No, no,' said God. 'Say Love. Now try it. LOVE.'
Crow gaped, and a bluefly, a tsetse, a mosquito
Zoomed out and down
To their sundry flesh-pots.
'A final try,' said God. 'Now, LOVE.'
Crow convulsed, gaped, retched and
Man's bodiless prodigious head
Bulbed out onto the earth, with swivelling eyes,
Jabbering protest--
And Crow retched again, before God could stop him.
And woman's vulva dropped over man's neck and tightened.
The two struggled together on the grass.
God struggled to part them, cursed, wept--
Crow flew guiltily off.
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Crow’s First Lesson was written by Ted Hughes.