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Ted Hughes's Poetry -
The Problem of the Evil of Self-Consciousness

V. Madhukumar, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Abstract

Ted Hughes's poetry hints at modern man's self-division and subsequent alienation from nature and consciously aims to integrate man with nature. His poetry concerns itself with modern man's problem of sense of superfluity. As a poet Hughes's traditional trait is chiefly that of an inspired visionary. His major poetic preoccupations are: nature and myth. He is obsessed with animals, animal energies and the darks, mysterious forces that are latently embodied in natural world.

A critical study of some of his best 'animal' poems conveys his concept of the primal energies of the natural world that stress the absolute otherness of that world and the relationship between these energies and the divided nature of man. His celebration of animal life, in a way, reflects the affirmation of all life. He is anti-rationalist and yet an agnostic. He argues that puritanical repression has alienated man from his natural instincts and laments that modern man, in the present cultural crisis, has lost his moorings and bearings in nature.

By practicing ritual and following dogmas Hughes attempts to rediscover and interpret these energies and restore them to man. Thus his poetry constantly aims at exorcising the evil of self-consciousness that is at the bottom of all schisms of the soul. Throughout his poetry, he quests for transcendence for release from shackles of time into timelessness and eternity. In this effort, he acquires a mystic dimension as poet.

Introduction

Undoubtedly, Edward James Hughes, popularly called Ted Hughes, is one of the most striking figures among the British poets since the Second World War. He is immensely prolific and considered as the natural successor to T.S. Eliot, W.B.Yeats, Dylan Thomas, and Philip Larkin. He is a poet of immense potential, who like D.H Lawrence not only accepts the overwhelming power of our natural instincts but goes on to tap intensely the dark, violent, psychic forces latent in human life. He is a voluminous writer and, and he has won enormous success and high critical acclaim and has greatly influenced such contemporary poets as Peter Redgrove, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill and others.

Ted Hughes is a nature poet, myth maker, psychic healer, poet-shaman, mystic and most importantly an entertainer at large. He has won innumerable awards for his writings including the New York Poetry Center First Publication Award (1974), Signal Poetry Award (1979), O.B.E. (Officer, Order of the British Empire (1977). He was made Poet Laureate in 1985 in succession to late John Betjeman.

Ted Hughes's Attitude to Nature and Animals

Ted Hughes's ' nature poetry' comprises mainly of his poems that explore man's relation with 'animal life' and 'landscapes' - both constantly interacting with the elements of nature. His nature poetry predominantly deals with the problem of modern man's alienation from nature. It is also an attempt to reunite man with nature.

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