Ted Hughes, Nature and Culture by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319975740
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Bate suggests a touching, if disputable idea: that ‘where Sylvia appropriated the Holocaust into her own private trauma as a reaction against her father’s Germanic tendencies, Ted gives Assia back to her people’. 19 The German-Jewish refugee’s position as the (from the letter to the Kaussens) ‘wounded about to be killed bird held in the mouth of the dog’ recalls the dog who could not chase down the stoat of ‘Strawberry Hill’: the unspecific and tyrannous ‘they’ that poem pitches itself against takes on the form of ‘the English the world hates’ (LTH 697). ‘Skull’ and ‘lick’ recur, and a racial remark—offensive, this time, rather than generous—once again conflates Asia and Africa. With the Tolstoy reference explained to us, we might see the crucified stoat from ‘Strawberry Hill’, transformed into a wolf, as having achieved a tenuous victory. ‘I expect I’ve made everything more complicated’, says Hughes (LTH 698). This means a lot, coming from a poet whose first impulse was to simplify, but who came to understand, in this instance, the risks involved in consolidating injustices within a too-hasty rhetoric.

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