Wodwo (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ted Hughes
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Narrative
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Perception, Folkloric or magical people, Self, Rivers or waterways, Speech, Trees, Life, philosophy of, Frogs, Goblins
The Poem
“Wodwo” is a poem of twenty-eight lines written in free verse. The poet is writing in the first person but in the persona of the Wodwo, which he describes in his essay “Learning to Think” (Poetry Is, 1970) as “some sort of goblin creature…a sort of half-man half-animal spirit of the forests.”
The Wodwo is not addressing the reader. Rather, the poem shows the stream of consciousness of the Wodwo. It mumbles to itself in the way that very young children or old people sometimes do, talking themselves through the processes of living and...
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