Ecocriticism and Ted Hughes’ Three Poetry Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral and Post-Pastoral in Traditional Nature Writing

Nature and the Poetic Imagination: An Ecocritical Analysis of Ted Hughes' Pastoral Poetry

Abstract

In this article I endeavor to do a nitty gritty overview in regards to the past basic consideration the selected writers, in particular Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Dylan Thomas got from different pundits worried about various points of view and contend for the use of Ecocritical hypothetical postulates to their heft of poetical works. Every one of them being pioneer artists are writing in the equivalent industrialized, sophisticated and post-war setting, in spite of the fact that Dylan Thomas is a little prior his poetry has its legitimacy in the post-war setting. In spite of our socio-social and psycho-physiological separating it is interested that every one of the writers have given significant unmistakable quality to nature in their works. At first, in any case, they show that the bond among man and nature is broken, nature being transcendently unfriendly undermining man‟s presence at the end of the day we have the peaceful image of man either in concordance with nature or looking for asylum and comfort in the lap of nature (both out of adoration for nature and to evade dreariness and lethality of mechanical presence). Aside from Heaney somewhat none of them too much lauds nature their delineation reasonably skirts on the fundamental senses, crude physicality, shared relationship, inborn in nature and show intense worry for the thriving and prosperity of non-human life even Heaney restricted the idea of complete avoidance into nature which the Romantics frequently did or possibly contemplated. In spite of the fact that they have their own distinctive methodology in their quest for nature, for Heaney follows the convention of Wordsworth and Hardy, and Thomas and Hughes are in the line of Lawrence and Blake, in their poetry the dualism among nature and culture, reason and feeling, culture’s defilement and pastoral’s motivation to come back to nature have become the prevail topic.