summary of the poem ,Work and Play by Ted Hughes
Work and Play -Ted Hughes “Work and Play” is a poem written by Ted Hughes. In this poem the poet makes a contrast between shallow and Human. The poet praises the beauty of the bird shallow and scorns at human being for his destructive and serpentine nature. In the first stanza, the poet describes the heavy labor of the shallow in the summer season. He describes shallow as a beautiful bird with radiance feather and energetic flight, “blue dark knot of glimmering voltage”. The poet feels delighted to admire the beauty of nature, but he gets angered towards human being. He expresses his disgust towards human for polluting and destroying nature. He compares human to a serpent riding a car. In Milton’s “Paradise Lost”, a serpent comes to tempt Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. This serpent is a venomous creature and, in this poem, Hughes compares human to a poisonous creat...