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The Exploration of Human Alter Ego in Animals: An Evaluation of Ted Hughes’s Animal Poems

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dc.contributor.author Rashid, Md. Abdur
dc.contributor.author Islam, Kazi Shahidul
dc.date.accessioned 2022-04-13T05:06:35Z
dc.date.available 2022-04-13T05:06:35Z
dc.date.issued 2018-12-12
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/3499
dc.description.abstract Ted Hughes, inarguably one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, occupies an unparalleled position in contemporary English poetry chiefly because of hispoetics of animal imagery that has so far been approached from different perspectives. This paper focuses on Hughes’s representative poems and puts forth the theory that his arts poetica actually develops from two simultaneous feelings, firstly his conviction in pristine animal energy, and secondly, his disillusionment about the humanization of man through the suppression of his primeval energy. These diametrical feelings make Hughes speak in favour of the suppressed elements of the psyche which alone promise resilience in the face of uncaring reality. Hughes thinks the civilizing ideologies actually result in the subversion of the primal imperviousness of the alter ego which is spontaneously manifested in non-human beings. A corollary of this paper is that Hughes’s signature poems encompassing ‘The Hawk in the Rain’, ‘The Jaguar’, ‘Hawk Roosting’, ‘Pike’, ‘Snowdrop, ‘Second Glance at a Jaguar’ etc. and the Crow Poems make more sense when studied with reference to human alter ego represented through the poet’s conscious delineation of non-human instincts. en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher East West University en_US
dc.subject Ted Hughes, animal imagery, primal instincts, alter ego en_US
dc.title The Exploration of Human Alter Ego in Animals: An Evaluation of Ted Hughes’s Animal Poems en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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