“You have brains in your head.You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” These wise words came from Theodor Seuss Geisel‚ whose nickname was Ted and pen name was Dr. Seuss. Born on March 2‚ 1904‚ Springfield‚ Massachusetts‚ came a talented author who focused on children’s books. Ted died on September 24‚ 1991. As he said‚ his mother‚ Henrietta Seuss Geisel always chanted rhythms she remembered from her youth‚ to sooth her children to sleep. Ted’s father‚ and grandfather
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Digging Summary The poem begins with our speaker at his desk‚ his pen poised to begin writing. He gets distracted by the sound of his father outside‚ working in the garden‚ and this sends our speaker into a spiral of memories about his father working in the potato fields when the speaker was a young boy. The memory stretches even further back to his grandfather and the hard work he did as a peat harvester (there’s all kinds of hard work going on). Eventually‚ our speaker snaps out of his daydream
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The Greatest Depression of Plath The end of World War One transitioning into the great depression would make for an unlikely time for two European descendants to birth one of the most highly influential poets of their time. October 27‚ 1932 would mark the day that Otto Plath and Aurelia Plath had become the parents of this astounding poet Sylvia Plath. The relationships that she would begin to form with her parents from such a young age would be a unique and complicated tale. Reflections of Sylvia’s
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imperfections he finds with the pig. As he begins to describe the pig‚ his tone changes from wonder to pity for the pig. He describes the pig as a “Brobdingnag bulk” to describe how big this pig is by comparing it to the giants that live in Jonathan Swifts book Gulliver’s Travels. He sees this pig as this fat pig that can barely move‚ and is slowly rotting away‚ “on that black compost‚ fat-rutted eyes dream filled”. He also compares the pig to an “our marvel blazoned a knight‚ helmed‚ in cuirass‚ unhorsed
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She was feeling unworthy because of her illness‚ and maybe she felt underestimated by people‚ for example when her husband Tom Hughes cheated on her. She tries to tell the people that she is their opus and what made her worse and worse day by day and made her die in a shrieking way are those people. In the last six lines of the poem‚ we see that she feels so strong; she even challenges
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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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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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‘Her Husband’ by Ted Hughes – Criticism Essay In the poem ‘Her Husband’‚ by Ted Hughes we are shown a man who returns home to his wife under the influence of alcohol after a hard day at work. We are shown that his wife has to clean up after him and that he does not treat her too well. This poem has five stanzas‚ all of which are quatrains‚ maybe to show us the repetitiveness of the husband coming home under the influence of alcohol. The lines are of unequal length and the poet might have used this
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“Mooses” The poem “Mooses”‚ by Ted Hughes‚ is about two mooses that find themselves ugly and not attractive. But my thesis is‚ mooses are large mentally challenged animals. I came down to this because of the author’s statements in his poem. The author thinks that the moose is mentally challenged because he states‚ “And why am I so ugly?” This shows that he is mentally challenged because‚ in some cases‚ looks can show a person’s mental capacity. And in this case‚ the author thinks that the mooses’
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