Lineage
Ted Hughes * Track #2 On Crow
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Album Crow
- #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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Lineage by Ted Hughes
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Ted HughesAbout
The beginning of the poem is reminiscient of the genealogies in the Gospels of the Bible. Hughes establishes “Crow” as a pervading and ultimate character in this poem.
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In the beginning was Scream
Who begat Blood
Who begat Eye
Who begat Fear
Who begat Wing
Who begat Bone
Who begat Granite
Who begat Violet
Who begat Guitar
Who begat Sweat
Who begat Adam
Who begat Mary
Who begat God
Who begat Nothing
Who begat Never
Never Never Never
Who begat Crow
Screaming for Blood
Grubs, crusts
Anything
Trembling featherless elbows in the nest's filth
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Who wrote Lineage's ?
Lineage was written by Ted Hughes.