thought fox
“The Though-Fox” by Ted Hughes is a metaphorical poem that is telling its readers how it feels to write a poem. ... He begins “The Thought- Fox” by stating, “I imagine this midnight moment’s forest”(Line 1), which sets the mood to a dark and quiet feeling. ... For example, he brings a “fox” into the poem as a character. The “fox” is a metaphor for the ideas that he develops as he writes them down on paper. In this poem, as the “fox" appears, he gives us the feeling of a lost and confused creature by stating “Cold, delicately as the dark snow / A fox‘s nose touches twig, leaf“ (Lines 9, 10). ... It is like a “sudden sharp hot stink of fox” (Line 21), which might sound bad, however it took a while but now the poem is done and there is a joy involved.