Ted Hughes portrays nature as an active force influencing human interaction.This theses investigates reoccuring motif of nature throughout Hughes poetry, particularly emphasizing the treatment of animals. The paper contends that Hughes picture of nature as a force that can be beautiful and terrible, nurturing and destructive, is greatly influenced by animals. This paper also explains how Hughes employs animal imagery to convey natures force, wonder and investigate the human condition in connection to the natural world by examining a selection of Hughes poems and showing how he does this. Ted Hughes represents this understanding of energy. He accepts that energy is the life force that displays itself in the elemental strength of nature, in the instinctual reaction of animals, and the garbed activity of human beings. He believes that energy manifests itself in three forms The lifeforce manifests itself most obviouslz in the behaviour of animals and derives strength from a source that is decidedly not human.