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Wind by Ted Hughes Worksheet

This document provides instructions for analyzing the poetic devices used in the poem "Wind" by Ted Hughes. It asks the reader to identify examples of metaphor, simile, and personification from the poem and explain how each example describes natural or other phenomena. It provides a template for listing each poetic device found, along with an explanation of what phenomenon it describes.

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Wind by Ted Hughes Worksheet

This document provides instructions for analyzing the poetic devices used in the poem "Wind" by Ted Hughes. It asks the reader to identify examples of metaphor, simile, and personification from the poem and explain how each example describes natural or other phenomena. It provides a template for listing each poetic device found, along with an explanation of what phenomenon it describes.

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Wind by Ted Hughes.

In this exercise, you are asked to find examples of the Poetic Devices used by Hughes in this poem,
and explain how the poet is using them. List each of the natural (and other) phenomena that are
being described using these techniques. You should look for examples of the following:

 Metaphor: describing one thing in terms of another/comparing one thing to another: ‘The
tent of the hills’
 Simile: a comparison that has a similar effect to a metaphor but uses ‘like’ or ‘as’: ‘gull
bent like an iron bar’
 Personification: giving human characteristics to inanimate objects: ‘the stones cry out’

Try to complete the table below, thinking about language in the poem Wind. The first entry has
been completed for you as an example.

Example of Poetic Device Explanation

‘Winds stampeding’ The ‘winds’ are being described in terms of animals (perhaps even
(Personification) humans) running without purpose and perhaps in fear. The image
suggests the loss of control, a lack of purpose and a dangerous
unpredictability.

‘Tent of the hills’


(Metaphor)

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