Shamanic Elements in the Poetry of Ted Hughes

✍ Scribed by Ewa Panecka

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 150
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Shamanism is not a religion, but a technique of achieving ecstasy through chanting, the beating of a drum and the shaking of a rattle, all with the aim of communing with the spirits and rescue afflicted souls.If poetry is a healing substance, poets are shamans of words, who journey into the magic land of art in order to bring the energy and imagery of dreams into physical reality. Shamans, the poets of consciousness, can heal the soul and thus lead the reader to spiritual rebirth and moral regeneration.The book interprets the poetry of Ted Hughes as a product of shamanic performance, the work of a mystic and a healer – the Poet Laureate who claimed that England had lost her soul which he proposed to retrieve through veneration of the Gravesian White Goddess, the embodiment of Nature.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Introduction
Ted Hughes as Shaman
Hughes and Tradition
Shamanistic Knowledge of Death
Shamanistic Healing
Healing Akin to Mythmaking
Hughes' Mythological Scenarios
Chapter One
The ‘Episodic’ and the ‘Encyclopaedic' in Hughes Animal Poems
Hawk
Jaguar
Otter
Fox
Chapter Two
Crow – Journey Towards Enlightenment
The Journey of Crow
How to Interpret the Myth
Workings of Pragmatic Myth
The Language of Crow is Shamanic
Chapter Three
Cave Birds - An Alchemical Cave Drama or a Tribal Myth?
Historical Myth
Alchemical Drama
Sufi Fable
The White Goddess – Usurpation of the Feminine
Death and Rebirth
Chapter Four
Gaudete - Reconciliation of the Inner and Outer World in Terms of Gender
Cockpit or ‘the Despotism of the Eye’
Reverend Lumb as Shaman
Hades and Dionysos are One
Parzival and His Brother
The Myth of Gaudete
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography

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