Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow

 as though the artist might be a bad guy, yet, the work, separated, is a magnificent piece, which throughout tells the theme of a crow, intersecting the ancient greek myths and genesis from bible. the language shows how talent Ted Hughes is, the reptitions and the connectedness of which he conjured up the first few poems and that of the last, merely doubles up the effect of the themes. it is a collection of poems mostly dealing with a sense of despair, a conflicting view about life and death, and the boldness to be against the dominant view of christianity at the time. it also touches on humanity, and tells bleakly of their simplicity and simple-mindedness, alongside their cruelty, for which all the crow surpasses humans. the very gravity of which the human condition is in modern centuries.