The Thought Fox

Stanza 3-4
Stanza 3 Critical Appreciation

• Snow as blank page

Cold, delicately as the snow
A fox’s nose touches twig, leaf
• First two stanzas : Anticipation
Two eyes serve a movement that
now
And again now, and now, and • Third stanza : Fox appears
now
• Fox is both the poem and the

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 Stanza 4 Critical Appreciation
• Neat prints into the snow symbol of the

Sets neat prints into the snow

poetic creation.

Between trees, and warily a lame • Forest serves as a symbol for poet’s

Shadow lags by stump and in mind.

• Comparison between stanza 1 and

hollow
stanza 4
Of a body that is bold to come
• Shadow can’t keep up with the pace of
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fox.
 Literary Context Historical Context
• Published in 1957.
•• Post war rapid
Add your second point here

• Grew up in Yorkshire, rural industrialization.

• Industrial boom lead to
pollution.
environment. • Featuring natural world.
•• Foxes hunted
Add your sixth point here for sport.

• Thought fox inspired by a

dream.

• “Ars Poetica” A poem should

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not mean but be.
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