홉킨즈와 테드 휴즈 시에서의 원시성

초록

The poems of G. M. Hopkins and Ted Hughes are good examples of poetic expression of the primitivism. At first, we can read every creature is wriggling and moving endlessly, as vitality of lives, in Hopkins’ poems. His living things are dynamic and full of energy and, strangely, his poems are telling not female but only male. Even those males are not aristocratic or intelligent people but low classed physical workers whose bodies are strong and muscular. This can be understood as Hopkins loves a kind of primitive health which is not decayed from the complicated civilization. In Ted Hughes’ poems, we can also find the similar dynamic movements in which his animals are very impressive. He likes to express the animals in their movement, energetically and endlessly. The horse, badge, jaguar and even thistle are good examples which represent the primitive energy of nature. This is telling his preference for the primitivity, which is similar to Hopkins. These two poets are naturalists and Romantists, who loves the beautiful nature of Britain island, that of Yorkshire for Ted Hughes, Wales for Hopkins. They could not be satisfied in only looking at it but tried to feel it with all their senses.

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