The Wind.

... THE WIND Hughes' admiration of nature is often set against his lack of admiration of man. These things are balanced against each other in several of his poems such as wind In Wind, there is a conflict between the man and the power of the wind. the poem, written in the first person, describes an exceptionally stormy night. Hughes uses different kinds of imagery to show this: he imagines that the house is like a ship, tossed on the waves - "far out at sea all night". He uses personification to give the wind an identity: Hughes writes about the wind "stampeding the fields" as if it is a cowboy deliberately making the grass and crops in the fields move violently, like stampeding cattle. He allows the wind to have power of its own, as he speaks of the way the "wind wielded/ Blade-light", as if it is dangerous and

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