Ted Hughes conflicting perspectives
Conflicting Perspectives Essay
Composers deliberately manipulate conflicting perspectives in order to achieve their purpose. This may be a unanimous truth amongst composers whether it is to attract sympathy, inform the responder, or to make a comment on the functioning and morality of society. In order to achieve their purpose, composers deliberately manipulate responder’s conflicting perspectives so that they will have the same perspective as them. Ted Hughes utilises the subjective nature of the textual form of poetry so as to evoke a certain response to sympathise with him and relieve himself of any guilt in his collection of poetry, “Birthday Letters”. “The Sea Inside”, a 2000 Spanish film based on a true story, directed by Alejandro Amenabar is an appropriate reflection of this. The purpose in this film was to inform responders of the tragic reality that terminally ill and paraplegic patients have to live through every day and how they feel they deserve the right and freedom to die with dignity. Amenabar is manipulating the perspectives of the audience by evoking sympathy, similarly to Hughes, through the main character’s suffering so as to manipulate the responder into siding with his viewpoint.
“Birthday Letters” is used by Ted Hughes in an attempt to exonerate him from public perception that he was responsible for Sylvia Plath’s suicide. He continuously takes the stance of the surrogate victim to Plath’s mental instability and destructive nature in their relationship. This is evident in The Shot; a poem that draws on real life examples, ‘you hair done this way and done that way’, ‘sob-sodden Kleenex’, in order to emphasise her instability and destructiveness. Hughes also use the extended metaphor of the bullet and its destructive connotations as well as using the title of the poem to place himself in the viewpoint that he was just the victim of Plath’s ‘trajectory perfect’ destruction – ‘Till your real target/Hid behind me. Your Daddy’. Hughes targets
Composers deliberately manipulate conflicting perspectives in order to achieve their purpose. This may be a unanimous truth amongst composers whether it is to attract sympathy, inform the responder, or to make a comment on the functioning and morality of society. In order to achieve their purpose, composers deliberately manipulate responder’s conflicting perspectives so that they will have the same perspective as them. Ted Hughes utilises the subjective nature of the textual form of poetry so as to evoke a certain response to sympathise with him and relieve himself of any guilt in his collection of poetry, “Birthday Letters”. “The Sea Inside”, a 2000 Spanish film based on a true story, directed by Alejandro Amenabar is an appropriate reflection of this. The purpose in this film was to inform responders of the tragic reality that terminally ill and paraplegic patients have to live through every day and how they feel they deserve the right and freedom to die with dignity. Amenabar is manipulating the perspectives of the audience by evoking sympathy, similarly to Hughes, through the main character’s suffering so as to manipulate the responder into siding with his viewpoint.
“Birthday Letters” is used by Ted Hughes in an attempt to exonerate him from public perception that he was responsible for Sylvia Plath’s suicide. He continuously takes the stance of the surrogate victim to Plath’s mental instability and destructive nature in their relationship. This is evident in The Shot; a poem that draws on real life examples, ‘you hair done this way and done that way’, ‘sob-sodden Kleenex’, in order to emphasise her instability and destructiveness. Hughes also use the extended metaphor of the bullet and its destructive connotations as well as using the title of the poem to place himself in the viewpoint that he was just the victim of Plath’s ‘trajectory perfect’ destruction – ‘Till your real target/Hid behind me. Your Daddy’. Hughes targets