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Ted Hughes: Swifts

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Swifts

Seasons Songs: Spring Summer Autumn Winter, London: The Rainbow  Press: 1974

315-316

Allusion to Classical figure Ironic allusion: 'the husk / of my little Apollo' (deaths of swifts learning to fly).

Comment  From 'Summer'. First published in The Listener, 16 May 1974.