The Minotaur Ted Hughes

What better feeling than to see your ball drop into the cup. It is such a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction to know that skill has helped to master the swing of golf. It took planning to decide on the proper club and skill to strike the ball well and a sharp eye to see the line to the cup. This planning is also 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 reader and how they would vividly appear in the reader’s mind. Ted is trying to bestow on the reader that his wife was the cause of demise between Ted and herself. In reality, Ted’s problem with cheating certainly broke the marriage. Ted states that his spouse left the children alone. The children had to face the problem of their parents fighting without anyone's help. The mother was mentally unstable and Ted just did not care about the children. These kids were stuck in a situation that
The image that this stanza is painting to the reader is how Ted’s wife had problems with her parents that scared her for life. Ted describes how her mother could never a help her, being a “dead-end”. The choice of the words “dead-end” boldly state how little help her mother could have helped her. Then Teds says how her father has risen again. He is describing that his wife has become her father and she looked down upon her father. He finishes his statement that his wife was becoming her father with “And your own corpse in it.” Ted has called his wife her father which she would never aspire to