Monday, 19 October 2020

Text of the Poem | The Thought Fox By Ted Hughes | Eureka Study Aids

1. I imagine this midnight moment's forest: 
2. Something else is alive
3. Beside the clock's loneliness
4. And this blank page where my fingers move. 

5. Through the window I see no star: 
6. Something more near
7. Though deeper within darkness
8. Is entering the loneliness: 

9. Cold, delicately as the dark snow, 
10. A fox's nose touches twig, leaf; 
11. Two eyes serve a movement, that now
12. And again now, and now, and now

13. Sets neat prints into the snow
14. Between trees, and warily a lam
15. Shadow lags by stump and in hollow
16. Of a body that is bold to come

17. Across clearings, an eye, 
18. A widening deepening greeness, 
19. Brilliantly, concentratedly, 
20. Coming about its own business

21. Till, with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox
22. It enters the dark hole of the head. 
23. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, 
24. The page is printed. 

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