What is the central message Ted Hughes is trying to convey in his poem "Full Moon and Little Frieda"?Full Moon and Little Frieda by Ted Hughes A...

The central message in Ted Hughes' poem "Full Moon and
Little Frieda" has to do with perspective and the
wonder of amazement. It opens with Hughes taking the reader
on a tour through a darkened country evening with "Little Frieda." It is important to
note that the country evening does not suffer from the benefit of artificial light--all
is seen, or not seen, through the starlight of a dark
evening.

Hughes tells us, from Little Frieda's
perspective or focal point, that the evening has "shrunken"
in the vision-restricting evening darkness to a few random sounds: "a dog bark," "the
clank of a bucket." Hughes then locates the time by indicating that, though dark, it is
still too early for the dew to have fallen: "A spider's web, tense for the dew's touch."
He then describes the sky by having it reflected with a tremor caused by the water's
motion in a pail of water fetched by Little Frieda (the same pail that provided the
"clank of a bucket" earlier). Having set the scene, Hughes further defines the time of
evening and, in conjunction, the time of year (autumn with early evening dark) by
introducing the evening odyssey of the cows returning from the field to the
barn.

Then Little Frieda--whom we know has not stayed up
until late at night--sees the moon. Hughes personifies the moon in order to
wonder in amazement through the moon's
perspective that the simple elements of life are amazing
works of art, a perspective rarely heard by post-World War II poets, by the way. He ends
by suggesting the message that the moon's wonder at the amazing work of art of simple
human life mirrors the wonder of people at the amazing work
of art that is the moon. Thus Hughes develops the message of wonderment at simple human
life around a metaphor comparing the wonder of simple,
uncomplicated human existence to the wonder of the moon.