23rd june 2005Over at geegaw there was mention of Geoffrey Hill, and it reminded me that a long time ago I'd noticed something (so much of the stuff on this site was thought of a long time ago, forgotten and re-remembered); that both he and Ted Hughes once related salmon to pigs: And where the streams were salt and full
The tough pig-headed salmon strove, Ramming the ebb, in the tide's pull, To reach the steady hills above. - Geoffrey Hill, Genesis . . . she is rich. She is viewing her lands.
A hoard of king-cups spills from her folds, it blazes, it cannot be hidden. A salmon, a sow of solid silver, Bulges to glimpse it. - Ted Hughes, The River in March and I wondered if that connection had been made elsewhere.
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