PRIMAL ENERGY VS. INTIMATIONS OF POWER GAMES IN TED HUGHES’S ANIMAL POEMS
PRIMAL ENERGY VS. INTIMATIONS OF POWER GAMES IN TED HUGHES’S ANIMAL POEMS

Summary/Abstract: The current article brings together a series of critical landmarks associated with power and ideology within the framework of literary and cultural studies and how they shed light on poetic representations, focusing on significant poems by Ted Hughes. At a time when “the gentility principle” (A. Alvarez) was seen as a negative feature of Movement poetry, Ted Hughes extols energy and extreme forms of feeling and sensation in which power, rather than gentility, is a key term.

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