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VIOLENCE AND THE CELEBRATION OF LIFE IN THE POETRY OF TED HUGHES

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1986
Summary:
This thesis probes the conditions of violence in Hughes's verse, explains why it occurs so frequently, and gives reasons for its use. While scrutinizing Hughes's use of violence, I also demonstrate the strong celebration of life which occurs in the poetry. I show that both violence and the celebration of life spring from the same impetus or spirit which works together to give humankind a sensitive and complete vision of the universe. I prove that the seemingly diametrically opposed concepts of violence and the celebration of life actually exist because of each other, and are in fact the same exultant energy occurring in different forms. My thesis deals with Hughes's less-known works: River: New Poems, Season Sonas, Under the North Star, The Tiger's Bones, The Iron Man, and selected poems from Crow.
Title: VIOLENCE AND THE CELEBRATION OF LIFE IN THE POETRY OF TED HUGHES.
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Name(s): KRUGER, KATHRYN GAIL.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Peyton, Ann, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1986
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 84 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This thesis probes the conditions of violence in Hughes's verse, explains why it occurs so frequently, and gives reasons for its use. While scrutinizing Hughes's use of violence, I also demonstrate the strong celebration of life which occurs in the poetry. I show that both violence and the celebration of life spring from the same impetus or spirit which works together to give humankind a sensitive and complete vision of the universe. I prove that the seemingly diametrically opposed concepts of violence and the celebration of life actually exist because of each other, and are in fact the same exultant energy occurring in different forms. My thesis deals with Hughes's less-known works: River: New Poems, Season Sonas, Under the North Star, The Tiger's Bones, The Iron Man, and selected poems from Crow.
Identifier: 14291 (digitool), FADT14291 (IID), fau:11099 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1986.
Subject(s): Hughes, Ted,--1930-1998--Criticism and interpretation.
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