Category: Pike

  • How is Tension Created in Poems? Pike, Wind, Sonnet 116 Analysis

    Tension builds. Like a spring or elastic band being stretched tight, writers build energy in a story or poem. Something bad is going to happen…any…minute… now. This is also called ‘suspense’. Writers create a suspenseful atmosphere – as if you’re being dangled, suspended over the edge of a cliff, clinging by your fingertips. They slow…

  • GCSE / IGCSE Essay Analysis of Pike, Ted Hughes

    Scroll down for the TOP grade essay on ‘Pike’, below the poem. Pike Pike, three inches long, perfectPike in all parts, green tigering the gold.Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.They dance on the surface among the flies. Or move, stunned by their own grandeur,Over a bed of emerald, silhouetteOf submarine delicacy and horror.A…