Poem - The Wind Ted Hughes (FC to Prof)

 The Wind by Ted Hughes

extract

The house has been far out at sea all night

The woods crashing through the darkness, the booming hills,

Winds stampeding the fields under the window

Floundering black astride and blinding wet 

...Now deep

In chairs, in front of the great fire, we grip

Our hearts and cannot entertain book, thought,

Or each other. We watch the fire blazing,

And feel the roots of the house move, but sit on,

Seeing the window tremble to come in ,

Hearing the stones cry out under the horizons.

Vocab Definitions

forests
making a loud noise
running like bulls

making it impossible to see

to hold tight

burning brightly

part of a plant which is underground

shake

Collocation

Imagine you had a terrible  argument with your partner. You could say you had had a blazing row. (pronounced like `how´)

Imagine you had such a terrible headache. You could say you had a blinding headache