Comparison of "Thistles" by Ted Hughes and "Mountain Lion" by D.H Lawrence

Q: Poets are often concerned with the connections between man and the natural world. Choose two poems and explain how the poets' attitudes are conveyed through the choice of language. "Thistles" effectively shows how Ted Hughes is able to use an extended and sustained metaphor of a negative facet of nature in order to portray the destructive, repetitious nature of man. The choice of subject for this metaphor, representing mans' brutality is also successful in …

…mans' relationship to nature can be interpreted in various ways from reflective to personal but further it shows how both poets are able to convey their views with pristine clarity while using completely different methods. A clear moral portraying the worth of nature and the impact that it plays on us as a society is perhaps the most important entity to gain from these poems concerning how closely we are linked with the natural world.