Ted Hughes

Plath Updike Comparison Draft 3 By denying change, one lives only in the past. Comparing Plath's “Sylvia Plath at Seventeen” and Updike's, “Ex-Basketball Player” reveals both authors create speakers who live in their past out of fear for their future. For this, the authors use similar thematic and stylistic elements, which both Plath and Updike employ to display humanity's resistance towards change and moving on. The thematic ideas in Plath and Updike's work, while slightly different, revolve…

by Ted Hughes examines the process of writing before and after the words are printed. Hughes explores this concept with images of a forest and a fox, or rather, as an idea rattling around a desolate brain, until finally, it comes about in its own business free of criticism and onto the page. The poem also examines the moments before and after these images, which Hughes writes as cyclical bookends underlining the loneliness of writing. The piece begins and ends with a starless sky. But Hughes…

“The Minotaur” by Ted Hughes; published in 1998, is one explicit example that shows Hughes’s utilization of poetic devices in order to show the complexity of factors that led to his tragedy-like relationship with Sylvia Plath. “The Minotaur” is written after the poem “Daddy”…

The poem “The Thought-Fox” is written by Ted Hughes’ in 1957. The poem exists out of descriptive and figurative language; this language is used to emphasize the intrinsic and complex relationship between a poet and the poet literary creations. The poem is a six-stanza poem that is all quatrains, with one or two full end rhymes. The poet carefully used different punctuation and enjambment to the rhythms of the fox as it moves onto the page come through. The poem deals with 6 stanzas and 4…

one of the most shocking losses in literary history because of its suddenness and because of who were left behind. People of all statuses and locations have provided their reactions to Plath’s death. These reactions ranged from death threats to Ted Hughes, the man accused of driving Sylvia Plath to her suicide, to making movies celebrating her courage in facing death on her own terms. These reactions tend to lean on…

Pakistan has been the multicultural society having people of different cultures and ethnicities which have all been transformed, into crystalline remains of literature in a variety of languages with a host of language, the literature produced here depicts an amazing variety Urdu, Hindi, Pashto, Punjabi, Sindhi, literatures with all of their prestige show a rich literary heritage. However, this progress and development has not been demarcated to indigenous literatures of Pakistan. Pakistani…

of Rivers, being Hughes’ earliest work, is indicative of the themes that run through much of Hughes’ work. Hughes use of black pride is present; he writes, “I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young./ I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep./ I looked upon the Nile and raised pyramids above it./ I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln/ went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy/ bosom turn all golden in the sunset” (Hughes, 23). Hughes shows the role…

“Hunting Snake” written by Judith Wright and “Pike” written by Ted Hughes are two poems about nature and animals. Hunting Snake has four stanzas and Pike has eleven stanzas. The animals in the Hunting Snake and Pike seem to be similar animals as they hunt in similar ways by being slow, quiet and pouncing to surprise the animal. Both of the poets write about their encounters with hunting animals, a hunting snake and a pike fish. Judith writes about a “big black snake” in nature hunting like in…

Poetry of life against prosaic life The passage “Icarus and Daedalus” by Josephine Preston Peabody and the poem “Icarus” by Wendy A. Shaffer tell us about the same event: the tragic death of Icarus who neglected his father's instructions. In their works both authors pay special attention to various aspects of nature, such as bird feathers, the sun, and water. However, the roles that they assign to these aspects are very different. J. P. Peabody tells us that Daedalus watching seagulls in the…

This essay is attempting to convince readers to look into what is going into the items that they have received, whether it be “100 % Indian Hair or clothes from Walmart ... not thinking of who made them”. The essay discusses how many may not know what is truly going on behind the scenes of what is being bought and used for personal gain. She discusses how many surely do not understand the customs of Indian women and what they go through with their hair to get it the way that it is for the…