International Research Journal of Education and Technology

The present study highlights the contribution of Ted Huges as a Post Modern Poet. Ted Hughes, unlike some modern poets, is profoundly concerned with the subject matter of his poetry. War and Violence are dominant themes in the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poet is fascinated by all kinds of violence– violence in love as well as in hatred, violence in a battle and violence in the form of murder and sudden death. His description of war and violence is very vivid and effective. There are many of Ted Hughes’s poems in which the theme of war and violence find a vivid expression. The Jaguar, Second Glance at a Jaguar; Pike; Hawk Roosting; View of a Pig; Esther’s Tomcat; Cat and Mouse; Thrushes, Six Young Men, The Casualty, Out, Grief for Dead Soldiers, The Martyrdom of Bishop Farrar and Bayonet Change, are his prominent poems in which the cruelty, the fierceness and the violence which are inseparable from the world of Nature, have been depicted in a very decent manner.

Keywords: War, Violence, Wounded, Deaths, Poignant, Brutality, Calamity.