Sexual imagery and male-ego in Lawrence's “Tortoise Shout” and Ted Hughes' “Thought Fox”

sexual imagery has been a significant phenomenon in modern literature as writers tend to enrich their writings with social taboos and erotic contents. This paper presents the poetry of D. H. Lawrence and Ted Hughes to show how those writers used sexual images to depict their male-ego, and their man...

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Main Authors: Shaymaa Alsalihi, Tavgah Ghulam Saeed
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Language:English
Published: Department of English, University of Chitral 2025-07-01
Series:University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature
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Online Access:https://www.jll.uoch.edu.pk/index.php/jll/article/view/361
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description sexual imagery has been a significant phenomenon in modern literature as writers tend to enrich their writings with social taboos and erotic contents. This paper presents the poetry of D. H. Lawrence and Ted Hughes to show how those writers used sexual images to depict their male-ego, and their manhood. Concentrating on Freud`s psychosexual development, and the use of phallic symbols. Through examining Tortoise Shout by Lawrence, and Thought Fox by Hughes, the reader can notice the sexual images that resides behind their stanzas. Accordingly, this paper tries to discover the way both writers present those images. 
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spelling doaj-art-86c238809a004b43b5772817cb76dcee2025-08-20T03:38:49ZengDepartment of English, University of ChitralUniversity of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature2617-36112663-15122025-07-019ISexual imagery and male-ego in Lawrence's “Tortoise Shout” and Ted Hughes' “Thought Fox”Shaymaa Alsalihi0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8338-1448Tavgah Ghulam Saeed1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3984-3569Assistant Lecturer at Imam Jaafar Al-Sadiq University, IraqAssociate professor in English Department, Karabuk University, Karabuk, Turkey sexual imagery has been a significant phenomenon in modern literature as writers tend to enrich their writings with social taboos and erotic contents. This paper presents the poetry of D. H. Lawrence and Ted Hughes to show how those writers used sexual images to depict their male-ego, and their manhood. Concentrating on Freud`s psychosexual development, and the use of phallic symbols. Through examining Tortoise Shout by Lawrence, and Thought Fox by Hughes, the reader can notice the sexual images that resides behind their stanzas. Accordingly, this paper tries to discover the way both writers present those images.  https://www.jll.uoch.edu.pk/index.php/jll/article/view/361Sexual imagery, Phallic symbols, D.H. Lawrence, Ted Hughes
spellingShingle Shaymaa Alsalihi
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Sexual imagery and male-ego in Lawrence's “Tortoise Shout” and Ted Hughes' “Thought Fox”
University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature
Sexual imagery, Phallic symbols, D.H. Lawrence, Ted Hughes
title Sexual imagery and male-ego in Lawrence's “Tortoise Shout” and Ted Hughes' “Thought Fox”
title_full Sexual imagery and male-ego in Lawrence's “Tortoise Shout” and Ted Hughes' “Thought Fox”
title_fullStr Sexual imagery and male-ego in Lawrence's “Tortoise Shout” and Ted Hughes' “Thought Fox”
title_full_unstemmed Sexual imagery and male-ego in Lawrence's “Tortoise Shout” and Ted Hughes' “Thought Fox”
title_short Sexual imagery and male-ego in Lawrence's “Tortoise Shout” and Ted Hughes' “Thought Fox”
title_sort sexual imagery and male ego in lawrence s tortoise shout and ted hughes thought fox
topic Sexual imagery, Phallic symbols, D.H. Lawrence, Ted Hughes
url https://www.jll.uoch.edu.pk/index.php/jll/article/view/361
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