Comment on the imagery used in Pike assessing it as an animal poem In Pike Ted Hughes - uses vivid and powerful imagery to show the pike as a fierce predator The poem s images bring the fish to life in a way that lets readers see feel and even fear the pike s primal nature Perfect Natural Killer Hughes describes the pike as perfect He begins the poem with Pike three inches long perfect Here Hughes highlights the pike s flawless design The poet describes the pike as killers from the egg the malevolent aged grin It emphasizes the pike s power and its role as a natural killer By using words like malevolent and grin Hughes makes the pike seem almost aware of its own fierce nature as if the pike takes pleasure in its ability to dominate Fearful and Dominant In the later stanzas Hughes describes the