Ted Hughes ‘Wodwo’ and ‘Crow’s Account of the Battle’

Hughess numbers constitutes a moral project. It demands that we see our ara and ourselves differently. Discuss. Together, jubilates aim of the difference and Wodwo by Ted Hughes detail aspects of merciful nature that Hughes is c e verying the readers to reflect upon from immaterial enamorpoints. Hughes is asking a generation exposed to the horrors of struggle, the destruction caused by the nuclear bombs and the Nazi holocaust to consider such pointless destruction and how so much of it is caused by our aberration from the complete being of the universe.He demands that we understand what it is all conscious beings feel we be missing, and fill that void by connecting to the subjective world and through art and poetry. crowings Account of the mesh shows the effects of our alienation and its disastrous consequences, but also asks us to witness these from the outside perspective of gas. Wodwo is a poem showing the first stages of alienation caused by self consciousness an d its possible dangers.Finally, together these poems allow us to examine ourselves objectively, and understand what it is that Hughes is demanding we must do to survive our dangerous hubris. triumphs Account of the employment is a disturbing picture of human coldness told from the neutral perspective of Hughess crow. piece the Crow figure features in many of Hughess poetry in rate to provide an objective viewpoint, we squirt lighten see in this poetry Hughess own disapproving feelings about war in the pace of the poem, This had happened too often before/ And was going to happen to often in the future.The nature of the word Account in the title is very scientific in itself, and the lack of metre in the poem accentuates the expression of a report. There be no agencies in this poem, we encounter human parts such as ear, eyes, intestines, brains, hair and odontiasis but there are no sides, all Crow sees are humans at war. Also, the verbs waste no subjects attached to them, c artridges were banging attain/the fingers were keeping things going.This lack of human presence also helps to omit any emotion, as Hughes can refer to not just the world wars, but any war in history, and therefore emphasise and shew to us the cycle of destruction into which humans alone created and will get across to fall in to. Wodwo is a stream of consciousness poem dilate a cocks first moments of conscious being. As the creature lasts aware of itself and its surroundings, it also becomes anomic from its environment, Do these widows weeds k this instant me do I fit in their world? Hughes constantly suggests, but particularly in Wodwo, that our consciousness causes us to be alienated from our surroundings and that we will immediately begin searching for this sense of belonging. We can clearly see this in the Wodwo, and in the final line once again very queer but Ill go on looking for ending with no full stop, suggests that like humans it will now spend its whole life sear ching for what it feels is missing. However, in relation to Crows Account of the Battle, he also suggests this brings danger as we begin to perceive our world as beneath us since we deplete been given freedom of thought.The early stages of this danger are shown in Wodwo, I seem to sire been given the freedom of this place and I speak out I am the exact centre, while the final, cataclysmic stages of it are demonstrated in Crows Account of the Battle. While the Wodwo has appeared to have exactly recently stopped hold outing and started being, Hughes demonstrates the blasting moral consequences this alienation can have, which are further examined in Crows Account of the Battle.While Crows Account of the Battle is presented as the probable future of the creature in Wodwo, both poems still contain explicit references to the fundamental existential questions that we are constantly difficult to explain. Wodwo is the very example of such questions, the very word Wodwo sounds like an question because of the w sounds and the first line is a perfect example of a conscious beings fundamental question- What am I? Again, Crows Account of the Battle is the evolution of such thoughts, but instead of asking these questions, the beings have started trying to explain them. We have a reference here to ecumenic Laws, traps of calculus and theorems (i. e. science) but also pocket-books, life-mask and many prayers (i. e. religion). However, since both of these explanations have been reached, and they are still in the middle of a pointless and immoral war and therefore are still trying to find what is missing, Hughes asserts that neither of these is the answer. If we render to the Wodwos origins, efore it became conscious, its surroundings are those of nature- we have leaves, rivers, weeds and roots alternatively than anything artificial. This, then, is what Hughes is suggesting is the answer. That we return to nature and try to reconnect with the whole being of the univers e. He suggests that it is only then that we will discover what is missing and rediscover our potential to exist in harmony with all of the forces of nature. In conclusion, Hughes writes such poems as Wodwo and Crows Account of the Battle to warn us of our inherent hubristic view of the natural world.He asks us to step outside ourselves and consider the reasons that we have become alienated, and how we have further extended our alienation by seemingly chronically searching for answers in the wrong places. Hughes is critical of both science and religion, of how we have used fundamental universal laws to our own advantage almost ever so for destruction, and of how religion persistently places humans over all other beings. He instead asks us to connect with nature, or The White Goddess (the original Goddess, hero-worship under many names, who encompassed the whole being of the universe) in order to rediscover that which we have lost.