The Jaguar, by Ted Hughes

In The Jaguar the first two verses are used to get word the zoo in which the animal resides. He slowly builds up to the Jaguar by describing the docile animals around and creating the atmosphere of or so unsettling stillness. He emphasises this disturbing aspect of the zoo with similes such as parrots shriek as if they were on fire and strut like flashy tarts. This builds visual picry in the audiences mind as it emphasizes the overlook of movement in the first stanza. The use of enjambment nevertheless reinforces the sense of motionlessness of these animals. The tigers and lions, animals that are thought of as cutthroat and ferocious, as described here as sleeping and drop in order to create contrast with the jaguar, so that its ferociousness and energy is enhanced.

The next stanza continues from stanza one and begins with lie still as the sun. This invent illustrates the ordinariness and dullness of the animals because of the sharp sounds of each word. Hughes again uses metaphors to supplicant to the audiences sense of sight in describing the boa constrictor as fossils, which strengthens the image of the animal as timeworn and ancient as a result of their captivity. Alliteration is immediately followed as can be seen in the phrase Stinks of sleepers from the breathing straw.



The reoccurring s sound parallels the ordinariness and monotonousness of the animals at the zoo.

The third stanza begins to introduce the jaguar as the poet describes the way the visitors clop towards it cage to see the graceful and deadly animal mesmerised by its stare and by a morbid bewitchment with death. The continuous flow of the first two stanzas ends from the beginning of the third stanza, which contains the description of the jaguar, this structure of enjambment...

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