Mythologizing of Animal Power in Ted Hughes's Poetry
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The main objective of this study is to show how Ted Hughes uses animal imagery
to counter Christian ethics. To see how animal imagery challenges orthodox values, the
sense of his poems has been analyzed in detail-against natural setting. The duty of God is
supposed to rescue all creatures but in his poems God seems helpless in front of his
creation. Crow's frequent opposition to say "love" is big blow to modern humanity. The
poet wants to revive pre-Christian era where nature's power governed. His desire for
purification or regeneration of human beings through renovation of myth is expressed
through animal instinctual imagery taken from deep past.