Wodwo by ted hughes presentation

Ted Hughes an American poet- wrote his poems as a memoir. After the death of his wife Sylvia Plath his most of work got influenced by this incident. Wodwo is one of his poem that is inspired by the concept of somehow afterlife we may call it.

1. Wodwo by Ted Hughes Fareeha Shoukat BS English

2. About the poem

3. Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath

4. A " wodwo " is a "wild man," a creature somewhere between elves and fairies and actual humans. of primal masculinity, or "maleness“ Wodwo which Ted Hughes describes in his essay “Learning to Think” ( Poetry Is , 1970) as “some sort of goblin creature a sort of half-man half-animal spirit of the forests.” stream of consciousness of the Wodwo.

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8. The poem then turns to considering the origin of the wodwo and the nature of freedom. I've no threads fastening me to anything I can go anywhere I seem to have been given the freedom of this place what am I then? Conti…

9. Structure and Language