... nature to act as his surrogate mother. Wordsworth's gendered poetics clearly manifests itself in his poems The Idiot Boy, and The Thorn. Each poem depict the literal female body, as well as the emotional aspects of the mother, and illustrates that Wordsworth's ability to create these poems depends ... is different to that of others, but he is happy in this solitude, much like the Wordsworth and his old lover. In this poem he uses the solitary figure to illustrate not only the healing power of nature, but also to criticize society for its unsympathetic attitude towards those ... Betty Fo...

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... and to some extent affect his poetry." Therefore, in poetry we see a political critique of society, potentially aestheticised by the author, however, this is no way detracts from the critical analysis of the society which can be determined through reading this work. Hughes himself has admitted that: "I explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America. This applies to 90 percent of ... regardless of colour. His social commentaries, found in the vast majority of his poetry offers the reader a political critique of society as profound as any non-fiction could offer. Hughes" poem Merry...

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