But who is stronger than death? Me, evidently . From Crow by Ted Hughes
Brother slew brother.
Someone called it good.
He drags the remains,
tossed on the Mesopotamian funeral pyre.
Flames devour the flesh--
ah, but the soul shifts outside,
curling into the very cup of trembling
planning his revenge,
all in the name of God.
5 comments:
you have previously said how much you like this guy. i know very little about him. he was married to slyvia plath wasn't he?
i saw a film of the two of them. odd couple.
i lke this. is it typical of his work?
Ask Deemikay. He's the pro. It depends on the phase of his work. But I had done a lot of reading of Crow before I wrote this, his darkest work. I don't really know his views on God. I see him as a pantheist.
In this one he seems to spell out the one of the core ruling facilities of human nature...hypocrisy
Enemy, I like the poem but who wrote it, you or Ted H.
Also, see this:
http://itkupillinblogi.blogspot.com/
I wrote it. I just used some Teddy for an epigraph. Love him.
John B: Amen to that, bro..
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