ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author have chosen some shorter poems and interpreted them as an individual reader. The hope is to show that bolstered by a reasonable amount of literary knowledge, anyone can interpret texts without resorting to handed down conventions or a priori ideologically constructed systems. This strategy is strengthened by a belief that memory, the involuntary memory in particular, is at the center of any genuinely free reading, a reading that focuses on the dynamic patterns of the text and uses their dynamics as the basis for an objective interpretation. Few poets have devoted more time to describing animals in their most characteristic or revealing stance than the British poet Ted Hughes. His volume, The Hawk in the Rain, and the first poem with that title have justly been praised. In all poems and especially in lyric compositions, poets can achieve unity by the simple act of bringing into proximity dynamic patterns, whether they are metaphors or not.
