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The Poem 'Mooses' By Ted Hughes

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Imagine a big moose walking around a house who seems to moderately cheerful. Ted Hughes poem “Mooses” initially seems to just be about a moose walking around a house. The symbolic meaning is that he is very depressed, sad and lonely. The main moose is him and the other moose at the end of the poem is his wife who sadly committed suicide. The message makes one believe they will meet again in an afterlife. The poem begins with low confidence and turns into depression first time Hughes reflects on low confidence is when he says, “ why am I so ugly? And why am I so far away from my feet?” This expresses that he is very insecure with his body, he could either feel too tall or to fat which he shouldn't feel. Everyone has different bodies and just because you might not look like everyone else's doesn't mean it is bad or wrong. Being insecure can make people feel very depressed about themselves. Another reason that depression takes a big part in the poem is when he says,” He meets another moose. “He stares, he thinks “It’s only a mirror!”” This quote reflects back in him seeing her. He becomes very sad and distraught not knowing it was actually her at …show more content…

Hughes says, “He weeps. Hopeless drops drip from his droopy lips.” This shows that the moose is very sad and it is almost pointless about what he is doing and feeling. The drops dripping are his tears due to his wife committing suicide who died shortly after their wedding. He is thinking and feeling all of these emotions and can not express them. He also says, “ In the forest. He bumps, he blunders, he stands.” This shows a great deal of grief because he is in the forest all alone. He does not know where to go and wonders through the forest trying to find answers.This piece in the poem is very similar to the sadness of the author's life when a lot of his family died. The losses portrayed a big effect on both display a big effect on character and

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