Ted Hughes Thought Fox

Practice Essay Question

Contextual concerns of composers are often reflected in their work. Discuss how the contextual concerns of Ted Hughes are represented in two of the poems set for study.

Context: anything that is going on in the poets life that might have inspired him. The spheres include political, personal, historical and social.

Ted Hughes, born(p) in the inter-war years between the devastating WWI, from which his father was virtuoso of only seventeen survivors of his battalion and WWII which Hughes saw unprecedented loneliness and cruelty, expressed both his shamanic dream of enlightening his society and his consternation at humankindities capacity for destruction and cruelty. His neo-Romantic view of character is revealed in (The Jaguar/ Second Glance at a Jaguar/The Thought play tricks/ Hawke Roosting) exposing his belief that many of the secrets of the human condition could be discovered and used to educate his generation. This altruistic motivation is contrasted to his neo-pagan, bleak, nihilistic world view given interpretive program in the poem/s (Hawk Roosting/ Crows Account of the Battle).





The Thought Fox is a poem that celebrates the powers of the imagination and compares the creative process to the provisional movement of a bemuse, who skirts the idea before dramatically leaping, both literally and nonliterally, into the poets head. By surrendering himself to the moment, the poet allows Nature to inhabit his mind and hasten the writing of a poem. The omniscient narrator I imagines the front line of something else which intrudes upon his loneliness as he sits at his desk desperate for inspiration. The metaphorical darkness is representative of a lack of inspiration depict in an intimate conversational tone as finished the window I see no star that senses something more near which is surreptitiously entering the loneliness. The outside(a) stirring of the mind is compared to the stirring of an animal as the fox tentatively feels its way nervously through the...If you want to draw a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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