HUGHES: AO5 Flashcards

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NATURE + STYLE:
Lawrence KRAMER

  • “Rain”
  • “Wind”
  • Animal Poems
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“Sometimes, to break through the integral terror and radiance underlying a form or force of Nature,
Hughes will make his poem stammer, describing and re-describing the same thing… in the hope that insistent resignification will batter
down the doors of perception”

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Dennis WALDER

  • Animal Poems
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“Hughes’s animal creations…suggests a state of heightened, dream-like, even hallucinatory awareness”

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Terry GIFFORD and Neil ROBERTS

  • “Jaguar”
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“The poet is in some way identifying himself with the jaguar”

“The fact that it is caged makes the jaguar, of course, a natural representation of a man’s imprisoned animal energies”

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HUGHES vs ‘THE MOVEMENT’:

  1. Seamus HEANEY
  2. Paul BENTLEY
  • ALL POEMS
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  1. HEANEY
    Hughes reacted against:
    “the Movement voice…Hughes’s great cry and call and bawl is that the English language and English poetry is longer and deeper and rougher than that.”
  2. BENTLEY
    * Hughes…
    - Nature
    - Old English
    -> “Wodwo” - poem AND collection title
    -> Alliteration, compound words…
    - Topographical Poetry
    * …vs. ‘The Movement’
    - “Poetry of deliberately limited aims…they had naturally sought a more sceptical, commonsensical mode of expression [after WW2]”
    - Class - highes rejects the voice of “literate English middle-class culture” (HEANEY)
  3. AO3
    - Hughes was inspired by Robert Graves’s “The White Goddess”, in which he argues the original function of the poet was to write hymns for the archaic matriarchal ‘Triple Goddess’
    -> Mythology
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CROW:
1. Paul RADIN
2. Keith SAGAR
3. Neil ROBERTS

  • “Crow” Cycle
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  1. RADIN:
    “Crow’s resemblance to the trickster figure…is undeniable”

    “His nature is paradoxical because he was before good and evil, a denier and affirmer, a destroyer and creator”
  2. SAGAR:
    “He is the unkillable urge to keep trying in spite of everything”
  3. ROBERTS + AO3:
    - Accompanied a series of anthropomorphic engravings of crows by Leonard Baskin
    - “He seemed to be assaulting religion and poetry simultaneously” (Neil ROBERTS)
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HUGHES as SHAMAN:
Eugene IONESCO

  • “Jaguar”
  • “Horses”
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Hughes acts as a “shaman, whose function is to make the dangerous journey, on behalf of his society, into the spirit world, which is to say, into his own unconscious”

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LUPERCAL + VIOLENCE
Jonathan BATES

  • “Pike”
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“Lupercal is alive with the apprehension of violence in places where the readers would not normally expect it”

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HIRSCHBERG:

  • Animal Poems
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“Hughes immerses himself in the dark, irrational forces around and within him, in order to purge himself of the artificial social construct, the personality”
- ie. freeing the id

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