Forms of Paradox in Ted Hughes's Poetry

Ted Hughes's poems do not question the ideas they are involved with. They dramatize them instead, they exhibit them in the scene, making the reader witness the "encounter" between two voices which assault each other and torment themselves in a fierce dialogue. Hughes has chosen to have no choice, no compromise of any sort. his poetry arises from this principle maintained with stubborn lucidity and executed with rrelentless rigour. Obstacle, barriers, hindrance, entanglement. This is the way things are in Ted Hughes's world.