Question

summary of poem My Own True Family​

Answer 1

Answer:

My Own True Family by Ted Hughes is a unique poem that captures the interaction between the poet and a group of oak trees.

In this interaction, the poet represents the human beings and the oak trees. The oak trees held the poet responsible for their sufferings at the hands of the human beings. They threaten him to ‘root’ him ‘among the oaks’ if the poet does not swear that he would plant two oak trees when one is felled by his race.

We may well interpret the poem as an interaction between the artificial world and the natural world. The repressed voice of the natural world gets heard through the oak trees and transformed the poet’s mind and thought.