Ted Hughes was born at Mytholmroyd town whose wild moorland strongly influenced his imagination. He often went into the countryside for exploring and fishing. It gave him the opportunities of observing animals. As a result, the evocation of nature and especially of animals is vivid in his early poems. If we look a little more closely at these poems, we see that majority of the so-called animals are metaphorical. Even those poems which are about animals are usually also about human experiences. In this paper, I wish to examine the imagery and the voice or tone of the animal poems of Ted Hughes. Violence is a central theme in Hughes` poetry. Many of the animals in his poems are predatory. It is not the simple instincts of animals that attract him, but their ferocity and power. His concern with violence and suffering comes from the fact. In "Hawk Roosting", the hawk believes that trees, air, sun and earth are there for his convenience and that all other creatures exist only as potential prey. Hughes admires the hawk and offers it to us for our admiration. Hughes is searching for a way of reconciling human vision with the power of the nonhuman cosmos. At first his main concern is to identify these energies and describe them, not only in human terms but in their own. And the discrepancy between these two descriptions gives the most powerful of his animal poems, for example, the hawk poems and "Pike," their characteristic tension. He is also concerned to discover whether negotiations are possible between man and Nature, that is, between man and his Creator.