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    they stand up against this body of literature. One poet who does compare well with this tradition is Ted Hughes‚ a confessional poet from the 1950’s through to the 90’s‚ renowned for his work ‘Birthday Letters’ which is concerned with the universal themes of love and mental illness. His technical use of figurative language and form is clearly poetic in its genre. Within this structure Hughes sets up the concept of using biographical‚ historical and chronological backgrounds as a method of exploring

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    Ted Hughes’s poem‚ “Wind”‚ describes the impact and strength nature has over human beings. The poem is written in first person‚ which emphasizes the idea of a personal experience and suggests that the speaker of the poem is Hughes. The poem is situated away from the cities‚ presumably in the countryside or in a very isolated place‚ this can be supported by the use of words like “fields” and “hills”. The setting of the poem is in autumn since the weather is described as being cold and grim. The

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    on display in the imagery and flashbacks used by Ted Hughes in “The Minotaur”. Ted had to master the ability to choose the right words that can paint a picture in the reader’s head. The fourth stanza of this poem cuts deep into the relationship between Ted‚ his wife‚ and their children’s. Ted describes that his wife’s “bloody end of the skein” ended their marriage. Ted carefully thought out his word choice to contrive his point across. Ted thought of the image that these words would portray to the

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    Red by Ted Hughes

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    ’Red’ is a final collection by Ted Hughes in 1998 before he died. It has also engages the final death of Slyvia Plath in this piece of poetry. Ted Hughes has used ’Red’ and ’blue’ to describe Plath’s view of life and character from the day they got married and lived in their house. In the beginning of Red‚ it has defines Plath’s favourite colour that seems to wrap her entire life and movement. In line 4‚ ’blood-red’ may have constitute a certain image caused in life that can be related to violence

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    The Jaguar By Ted Hughes

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    written by Ted Hughes‚ he tries to capture the mood of a post war‚ 1950’s zoo. He depicts the animals as hot‚ lazy and lethargic. This is because they have been captive for a long stretch of time. The animals are not lively but are dull and lifeless. He uses the expression ’stinks of sleepers from the breathing straw’ to show this. He then unveils the jaguar as being live and vivid. ’At a jaguar hurrying enraged.’ ’The Jaguar’ longs for freedom physically but is free mentally. Hughes has a few main

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    Pike by Ted Hughes

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    PIKE By Ted Hughes Background Ted Hughes was born in Mytholmroyd in the West Riding of Yorkshire‚ England in 1930. His poetry discards Romantic notions about the natural world. He became British Poet Laureate in 1984 and was so until his death in 1998. In Pike Hughes offers a far from Romantic view of nature in his depiction of this primitive and malevolent fish. Stanzas 1 – 4 offers a mix of objective description (‘green tigering the gold’) and subjective description (‘their own grandeur)

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    The jaguar by ted Hughes In stanza 1‚ an image of distorted nature commences. The opening line ‘the apes yawn and adore their fleas in the sun’ presents an oxymoron that evokes a sense of both boredom and decay for the reader. The aural imagery and onomatopoeia of ‘the parrots shriek’ is complemented by two similes ‘as if they were on fire’ and ‘strut like cheap tarts’ to add visual imagery‚ parrots that are acting desperately and unnaturally for attention and food In stanza 2‚ the empty cage

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    The Thought Fox Russell Taylor L6IB English The first line of the poem is very interesting. As the poet starts the poem with the word “imagine” it gives me the feeling that the poet is beginning to create something‚ he is trying to dive into his mind and unleash the power of his mind’s creativity. I think that he has emphasized this point by using the alliteration of the words “midnight moment’s”. In the second

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    "Pike" by Ted Hughes

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    "Pike" by Ted Hughes Envisage the Yin and Yang emblem. The idea behind it is that there is no such thing as purity. You can’t have pure evil – there is an element in all things of some good‚ however small. Similarly‚ you can’t have pure goodness – there is an element in all things good that is itself bad. We see the idea in great poems like Chinua Achebe’s “Vultures” and in our day to day actions as member of a fickle and capricious human race. This is the idea of Pike. It is attempting to

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    Trophies Ted Hughes Birthday letters * Trophies was a response to Sylvia Plath’s own poem “pursuit”‚ Hughes used Trophies as a response to the poem. * Hughes starts of the poem with “The panther?” which gives the readers an idea of what the poem will be based on we mentally create an image of a panther in our minds. It is almost like a question that leaves the readers suspicious and wanting to continue to read to answer the question. * Words such as “Jaws” “Fangs” “prey” and “Beast”

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