The tension of the poem "The Stag" by Ted Hughes is, of course, between man and nature. This tension mounts with the arrival in the first stanza of the "traffic jam" of men who are in disharmony, scrambling, with children crying, fighting, and tangling. In contrast to this is the cry of hounds; in contrast, each stanza ends with a simple,flowing, natural sentence about the stag: "The stag ran through the forest" or "The stag loped through his...
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