Compare and Contrast the ways in which a Ted Hughes The Thought Fox and Margaret Atwood
... Ted Hughes “The Thought-Fox”and Margaret Atwood’s “Spelling” think of words in diffirent ways, but both illustrate how important words are of the exploring process of making poems, although they may look so innocent and simple, they are a very powerfull thing to create. In Ted Hughes “The Thought-Fox” the writer himself is the person in the poem and in Margaret Atwood’s “Spelling” the person in the poem is clearly a woman and likely to be the writer herself. ... The writer in “The Thought-Fox” is in the middle of the process of writing a poem. ... He is looking, “through the window” trying to see the fox, which is a metaphor for inspiration or the words to come. ... In the 3-4 stanza the approach of the fox is described, the words are beginning to flow, but still he hasn’t seen the fox, which means that he still has no clear idea.