The main difference between Plath’s and Hughes’ poetry‚ is that Plath writes about her own experiences. Whereas Hughes experience is second hand‚ he writes about his own pain though Plath’s experiences. In the poem Daddy‚ Plath is talking about her childhood. She is writing as she remembers it. On the other hand the way Hughes writes Tender place is through Plath’s experience of electrocution. The Poem ‘Daddy’ is set in Sylvia’s childhood. It is a very violent and conflicted poem. She is talking
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"The Tender Place" is an affectionate poem in which Ted Hughes contemplates and describes the Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) inflicted on Sylvia Plath. The human impulse behind this poem is to bring across the negative impact and effects this anti-depression therapy has on her. Through this poem‚ the horror and needless destruction that such therapy implicates is conveyed very impressively. In the first lines‚ Ted Hughes refers to Sylvia Plath’s temples‚ where the electrodes for ECT are placed
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"Hawk Roosting" is one of the many poems published by Ted Hughes during his literary career dealing with animal and nature. In this poem we have a Hawk who thinks that everything in nature is inferior to him and he will allow no change in his life. The stylistic devices used by Hughes make this poem harsh and dynamic showing us an aggressive‚ unsentimental and gloomy image of the Hawk and at the same time realistic‚ which help to mirror the character of the Hawk. The poem is written in six regular
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Ted Hughes’ poem ‘The jaguar’ describes a group of animals living in a zoo‚ caged and sedentary‚ being stared at by onlookers‚ as well as one animal in particular: the jaguar. In this poem‚ we see how certain animals have let their cage define them‚ and have grown into almost inanimate objects whereas the panther‚ symbol of power and greatness‚ has not let itself be confined to the realm of his cage and instead uses his vision‚ his mind‚ to escape the entrapment. Hughes paints an extremely vivid
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The poem ‘‘The Jaguar’’ is written by the former British Poet Laureate‚ Ted Hughes. It is written in the third person perspective‚ describing the animal’s attitudes in the zoo. The speaker of the poem is unknown‚ but one could assume that Ted Hughes is the speaker himself. The poem describes the lifestyle of animals at the zoo and their different attitudes towards their entrapment in their cage‚ and tributes the majesty of the Jaguar. It compares the bored and lazy moods of animals‚ to the energetic
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Blake and Wordsworth William Blake and William Wordsworth were two of the most influential of all of the romantic writers‚ although neither was fully appreciated until years after his death. They grew up with very different lifestyles which greatly affected the way they as individuals viewed the world and wrote about it. Both play an important role in Literature today. Despite their differences‚ with their literature backgrounds they cannot help but have a few similarities. William Wordsworth
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Fulbright Scholars Where was it‚ in the Strand? A display Of news items‚ in photographs. For some reason I noticed it. A picture of that year’s intake Of Fulbright Scholars. Just arriving Or arrived. Or some of them. Were you among them? I studied it. Not too minutely‚ wondering Which of them I might meet. I remember that thought. Not Your face. No doubt I scanned particularly The girls. Maybe I noticed you. Maybe I weighed you up‚ feeling unlikely. Noted your long hair‚ loose waves
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WIND- Ted Hughes In this poem‚ Hughes draws a sharp contrast between the sheer intensity and uncontrollable strength if the wind in a storm as opposed to the vulnerability and fragility of man. The poet starts by describing a tremendous gale striking a desolated moorland house and its inhabitants. “The house has been far out at sea all night.” By using this metaphor he compares the house to a boat at sea. The house faces wave upon wave of inexhaustible pounding from the wind‚ as a boat would be
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Hughes deliberately creates myth to ‘correct’ the fundamental flaw in western thinking‚ which is the separation from nature. His intent to metaphorically bring attention to the psyche of society‚ brought upon by WWII‚ through animals and the disconnection from nature is expressed in both ‘The Jaguar’ and ‘Wodwo’. These poems focus on the centrality of consciousness‚ the flaws of humanity and Hughes concern with the need to reconnect with nature due to the trauma of the twentieth century. Hughes is
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2011 “A Man of Men”: William Wordsworth William Wordsworth is widely considered one of the most influential English romantic poets. In the preface of his book‚ Lyrical Ballads‚ published in 1798‚ Wordsworth declared that poetry should contain language really used by men. This idea‚ and many of his others‚ challenged the old eighteenth-century idea of formal poetry and‚ therefore‚ he changed the course of modern poetry (Damrosch‚ 397). Wordsworth was born of Cockermouth‚ West
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