Wind Themes
Man and the Natural World
The poem takes place in the natural world and it involves human beings. So this is definitely a theme—probably the major theme—of "Wind." Hughes pictures the natural world as awesome, but also...
Isolation
The speaker in "Wind" is defined by isolation. Although he (assuming it's a he, perhaps a stand-in for Ted Hughes himself) lives in a house with other people, he's mainly presented to us as a tiny...
Awe and Amazement
Destruction isn't just scary, it's also pretty awesome and impressive. In "Wind," the wind is beating birds out of the sky and denting eyeballs, but it's also causing a mysterious transformation to...
Violence
In case you haven't noticed yet, the wind in "Wind" is pretty violent. It's like some tough-talking 1950s greaser, smoking a cigarette and flicking a switchblade. We don't know what exactly the win...
Power
The wind in "Wind" can be so violent precisely because it has so much power. It's like not Willem Dafoe as the Green Goblin in the Spider-Manmovies, plotting and seizing power. It just is. It's the...