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'Ted Hughes Represents Animals as Alien and Opposed to the Civilised Human Consciousness.'<Tab/> Is this an Accurate Representation of the Poems that you have studied?

Date Submitted: 12/19/2004 19:23:00
Category: / Literature / Poetry
Length: 9 pages (2354 words)
Saying Hughes represents animals as alien and opposed to the civilised human consciousness is not a satisfactory answer or complete analysis of the seventeen poems that have been studied. It is only a generalisation. It is true that most of the poems do have animals represented as opposed to this human outlook in that the animals are shown to display cannibalism, extreme brutality, no remorse, a total lack of maternal grief as in Ravens, and, …
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…the current civilised human consciousness and are alien to this consciousness but I think that he is trying to say that both humans and animals have started from the same point, but animals have not evolved as far mentally because they seem to possess no Ego or Superego, only the Id and so we should not, and for the most part, in reality, really take notice of their behaviour because it is, quite simply, natural.
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