In hawk roostitng, an otter, and pike, how does hughes present nature as timeless and deeply connected to the past.

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In hawk roostitng, an otter, and pike, how does hughes present nature as timeless and deeply connected to the past.

The three poems by Ted Hughes are strongly connected to nature and timelessness. As we know, Ted Hughes was very strongly influenced by mythology, and as we find out once we read the three poems, they are also very strongly connected to mythology.

The first poem “Pike” is divided into three sections; the first is a description of the pike. And    Ted Hughes as we get to see describes this animal as a naturally born beast and killer.

“Pike, three inches long, perfect
Pike in all parts, green triggering the gold.
Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.
They dance on the surface among the flies.”

The Pike is three inches long, and it is perfect. This strongly relates to timelessness and evolution; this animal evolved to be a perfect killer from the egg and wear´s the suitable malevolent grin it developed through eras of evolution. It is so perfectly evil, that you can only see it by itself, surrounded by nothing but flies.
This first stanza of “Pike” is very similar to the first stanza of the other two poems. the similarity comes from the description of the animal as one of perfection, this is shown below.

“I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.
Inaction, no falsifying dream
Between my hooked head and hooked feet:
Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.”

This is the first stanza of “Hawk Roosting”. The first feeling we receive from reading the lines is of complete calmness and relaxation: The Hawk sits on top of the trees, with his eyes closed, he is untouched, and threatened by no one which permits him to have no worries. The way Ted describes his hooked head and feet makes the Hawk seem beastly and dangerous at the same time as wrong, twisted and witch-like, again relating, just as the Pike to a process of long evolution that reached to be this perfect natural killer. Ted personifies the Hawk by using human parts of the body to describe the Hawk´s talons.
Also the descriptions show the Pike to us in a new, mythological, beastly way, as opposed to just the `bird´we are used to thinking of it.
The last line shows us that all that the Hawk thinks about is his perfect skill of murder, leaving no place for any other concern or worrying.
In whole, the first stanza has a lot of relevance to timelessness because of the way that the Hawk is evolved to be what he is, and the way he can sit in one place for as long as he wants, making it seem like if he can control time. Because he is the master and the owner of his world.

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The third poem is “An Otter”. This one shares the same theme of evolution and timelessness as the other two and as we will see below, the Otter is as perfect as the Pike and Hawk in its own surroundings.
“Underwater eyes, an eel´s
Oil of water body, neither fish nor beast is the otter:
Four legged yet water-gifted, to outfish fish;
And a round head like an old tomcat”

The first line of this poem presents to us the eyes of the Otter, and straight away it makes it look evil and scary comparing it with an eel´s, but at the same time i ...

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