Wind

Question- How does Ted Hughes portray the power of the wind in the poem, “Wind”?

ANSWER

“scaled along the house-side”- The alarming gesticulation of the speaker’s gauntlet to endure the
wind unfurls its insolent and hellacious power. Hence, throughout the monologue, Hughes illumes
the elemental dominion that constrains the mankind to its foot by destructing and chasing them and
theirs’, quilting a sense of anxiousness and anticipation which is juxtaposed by the ups and downs of
the intensity of torment, leaving the humans vulnerable, awaiting the mercy of nature. Therefore, by
the use of form and structure, theme of dominance and similes, Ted Hughes in his poem, “Wind”
maquillages the power of the wind.

Illustrating the formulation of his poem, Hughes uses form and structure to exhibit the ferocious
strength of the wind.

Wind by Ted Hughes is a twenty-four lines monologue divided into six, four lines stanzas or
quatrains. Written in an impudent and obtrusive tone, the poem creates a mood of dismay and
affright. Hughes homogenizes shorter sentences with certain prolonged ones, manifesting the
vicissitude in the fervidness of havoc.