WIND by Ted Hughes - Full explanation with Symbolic representation

  WIND Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was a great poet of twentieth century. He was living in an age of anxiety and frustration when German Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party had occupied the whole of Europe during 1939 and 1945 and the Europeans were enforced to live a life of slavery. Add to this, Ted married Sylvia Plath (an American poetess) in 1956 and left her for another woman in 1962. He was much frustrated by the suicidal act of Plath by the following year. Therefore, his poetry often speaks of the prevalent furore, turmoil, perturbation, chaos, weariness, agitation and unrest. His poem ‘Wind’ is a record of post-world war mental tensions, intellectual abnormality, sense of insecurity, feelings of horror and lack of freedom. The central theme of the poem deals with the lost mental equilibrium of the modern man. This poem is symbolic and Ted has conveyed his inner thoughts, sentiments and notions in the guise of rare symbols. He makes use of different types