Ted Hughes’ use of pathos in Learning to Think was evident when he began talking about the “numb blank feeling” when refereeing to his thoughts. This appeal to one’s emotions. He continues to say, “Sometimes they were hardly what you could call a thought – they were a dim sort of feeling about something.” This again uses emotions to appeal to the reader. When reading Learning to Think, I came across the author using a rich analogy to not only make the passage more interesting, but to also to make an emotional connection with the reader. The analogy, “That process of raid, or persuasion, or ambush, or dogged hunting, or surrender, is the kind of thinking we have to learn, and if we do not someone learn it, then our minds lie in us like the fish