Ted Hughes’s Vision of Power and Energy: A Special Reference to “the Hawk in the Rain”

Abstract

Ted Hughes is a versatile genius. He is one of the foremost poets in English literature. The violence is present in Hughes's poetry "as a desperate wish to be out of the human altogether. Hughes is a poet who finds the human condition too much to take." The poetry of Ted Hughes has an element of violence. For him violence and power go together.The Hawk in the Rain is the first collection of poems by Ted Hughes. "The Hawk in the Rain" pitches us into the thick of a battle between vitality and death, which Hughes claimed was his only subject. It is, in this poem as in many, a one-sided battle. The poem "The Hawk in the Rain" presents a contrast between the steadiness, stability and strength of a hawk and the unsteadiness and sense of danger of a human being. We find the most vivid picture of the hawk being hurled down by a furious dream, and dashing against the earth, to be killed that instant. "The Hawk in the Rain" illustrates Hughes's vision of power and energy.