%0 Journal Article
%T TED HUGHES¡¯ ANIMAL POEMS: AN EMBODIMENT OF VIOLENCE OR VITALITY?
%A Sheikh Mehedi Hasan
%J The Dawn Journal
%D 2012
%I The Dawn Journal
%X Ted Hughes, a leading contemporary British poet appears to explore, through his creative and poetic imagination, the intensity of archaic energies largely in animal world. He is commonly termed ¡°animal poet¡± as he composed a significant number of animal poems, expressing his strong interest in animal life. While his contemporaries were committed to ¡°the Movement¡± and kept articulating angst, anger, negation, narcissism, morbidity, and frustration in their verses, Hughes produced elegant poems of versatile animal world. His poems are expressive of archetypal energy and spontaneous vitality though he is sometimes accused of composing verses of violence. In this essay we will analyse a few of his animal poems to underscore his poetic vivacity which essentially connotes a number of relevant issues of human world. Contemporary issues of Britain can of course be located in his poems, but those obviously go beyond his time and visit and revisit many decades ahead of his life. While exploring Hughes¡¯ poems, we will attempt to attend few issues like why he is found interested in violent energy in animal world and how far his violent imagery expresses vibrant vivacity in his poems. Above all, we will focus on the relevance of reading Hughes¡¯ poems in an era of military might, multi-numbered mutilations, unbound terrors, and all-encompassing violence.
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