Ted hughes Essay Examples

Ted Hughes famously quoted “What excites my imagination is the war between vitality and death”. This is a key factor in the effectiveness of nearly all of Hughes’ early work – the stark contrast between life and death, vitality and lethargy. In poems such as “The Jaguar”, “Roarers in a Ring” and “Six Young Men”,…

Ted Hughes’s poems often contain striking and sometimes quite startling imagery and language. In the poem “Thrushes” for example Hughes’s describes the birds in an almost disturbing manner. Hughes refers to the birds as “more coiled steel than living” this produces a startling image of the speed and almost robotic and mechanical nature of the…

1. Explain the use of the term “womb-door”. The word “womb door” at first seems to have very sexual connotations. The voice of God’s nightmare gestates and begins to acquire a physical state. But before it is born, there is yet a trial that the embryo has to go through. This is the embryo’s examination…

Ted Hughes is a poem that focuses upon a benevolent hawk. Who believes that the world belongs to him, The poem written in first person as a dramatic monologue, creates a comparison in the readers mind, between the hawk and an egoistic dictator. In the opening lines of the poem, a very negative impression is…

Animals are living things that we see in our everyday lives yet we don’t seem to give them any importance. Very few people give them the respect they deserve. The poems I am going to compare are based on animals. The animals are given human qualities, which are done purposely by Ted Hughes to make…