Ted huges
Title: Foundation of Ted Hughes’ work
Who was Ted Hughes? What’s so special bought him that he was able to use his own life experiences to create wonderful poems? Ted Hughes wrote bought anger sorrow and regret because he saw people in pain, his own wife passed away and he regrets his actions from the past.
Edward James Hughes or more commonly known as Ted Hughes was born in August 17, 1930 at 1 Aspinal Street, in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire to William Henry and Edith Hughes. When Hughes was seven his family moved to Mexborough, South Yorkshire, where they ran a newsagents and tobacco shop. He had an older brother Gerald and a younger sister Olwyn. He attended Mexborough Grammar School were his teachers encouraged him to follow a path in literature. After school he served his two years of his national service as a ground wireless tech. During his service he would read Shakespeare a lot which would come very beneficial to his future. Once his service was over he studied English, Anthropology and Archaeology at Pembroke College. Hughes graduated from Cambridge in 1954. A few years later, in 1956, he co-founded the literary magazine St. Botolph’s Review with a handful of other editors. Ted met his future wife Sylvia Plath at a party four months after there meeting they got married. Plath encouraged Hughes to submit his first manuscript, The Hawk in the Rain, to The Poetry Center's First Publication book contest. The judges, awarded the manuscript first prize, and it was published in England and America in 1957.
Ted loved writing bought animals but his poems turned very dark due to Sylvia’s and Ted’s relationship. There honey moon was over and tension between the two rose, he would go on later to regret his actions. In The Minotaur Ted shows how his wife would act. “The mahogany table you smashed had been the broad plank top of my mother’s heirloom side board mapped with the scars of my whole life” (Hughes). The mahogany table was a very special object to
Who was Ted Hughes? What’s so special bought him that he was able to use his own life experiences to create wonderful poems? Ted Hughes wrote bought anger sorrow and regret because he saw people in pain, his own wife passed away and he regrets his actions from the past.
Edward James Hughes or more commonly known as Ted Hughes was born in August 17, 1930 at 1 Aspinal Street, in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire to William Henry and Edith Hughes. When Hughes was seven his family moved to Mexborough, South Yorkshire, where they ran a newsagents and tobacco shop. He had an older brother Gerald and a younger sister Olwyn. He attended Mexborough Grammar School were his teachers encouraged him to follow a path in literature. After school he served his two years of his national service as a ground wireless tech. During his service he would read Shakespeare a lot which would come very beneficial to his future. Once his service was over he studied English, Anthropology and Archaeology at Pembroke College. Hughes graduated from Cambridge in 1954. A few years later, in 1956, he co-founded the literary magazine St. Botolph’s Review with a handful of other editors. Ted met his future wife Sylvia Plath at a party four months after there meeting they got married. Plath encouraged Hughes to submit his first manuscript, The Hawk in the Rain, to The Poetry Center's First Publication book contest. The judges, awarded the manuscript first prize, and it was published in England and America in 1957.
Ted loved writing bought animals but his poems turned very dark due to Sylvia’s and Ted’s relationship. There honey moon was over and tension between the two rose, he would go on later to regret his actions. In The Minotaur Ted shows how his wife would act. “The mahogany table you smashed had been the broad plank top of my mother’s heirloom side board mapped with the scars of my whole life” (Hughes). The mahogany table was a very special object to