I have chosen to compare ‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen and ‘Bayonet Charge’ by Ted Hughes. Owen uses two powerful similes in Exposure. The first being in line 7‚ equating the harsh wind to ‘twitching agonies of men’ is a gruesome comparison that conveys a natural‚ merciless phenomenon in terms of vivid human suffering. In complete contrast with the reality of the poem’s setting‚ the touch of snow is equated with an image of lying under a blossom-laden tree in England. The home fires contain glowing
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Tribulations of Ted Hughes On August 17‚ 1930 the great English poet‚ Edward James (Ted) Hughes‚ was born in Yorkshire. He attended Mexborough grammar school where his teachers proposed that he should take up writing‚ fueling his love of piecing together poetry. Hughes always had a love and interest for animals and they were a major theme in his writing even from an early age. In 1946 the schools magazine published his poem "The Wild West" and others in ’48. That same year Hughes won an open exhibition
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poem‚ ‘The Jaguar’ written by Ted Hughes‚ is one of his most famous poems but no his only by far. From 1984 to his death‚ Hughes wrote poetry constantly. Critics rank him as one of the best poets of his time. ‘The Jaguar’ describes the different lifestyles of animals at a zoo and expresses how they feel about being trapped in their cages. It shows the slow‚ lazy movements from some of the animals to the fast‚ rapid movement of the jaguar. In ‘The Jaguar’‚ Ted Hughes uses techniques such as tone‚
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The Violent Energy of Ted Hughes "Poetic voice of blood and guts" (Welsh 1) said one newspaper headline announcing the appointment of Ted Hughes as the new Poet Laureate in November of 1984. It was fairly typical of the surprise with which the media greeted this appointment because Ted Hughes‚ it seems‚ is for most people a difficult poet. Hughes is frequently accused of writing poetry which is unnecessarily rough and violent when he is simply being a typically blunt Yorkshireman‚ describing
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Ted Hughes’s full name was Edward James Hughes. He was born on Aug. 17‚ 1930‚ in Mytholmroyd‚ England. His parents were William Henry Hughes and Edith Hughes. William Hughes‚ Ted’s father‚ a carpenter‚ survived World War I‚ and he told stories about the war which left imprints in Ted’s imagination with violence and death. At the age of 7 he and his family moved to Mexborough‚ Yorkshire‚ and at Mexborough Grammar School he began to write poetry. He won a scholarship to Pembroke College‚ Cambridge
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in ‘Belfast Confetti’ and in one other poem from Conflict. Both ‘Belfast Confetti’ and ‘Bayonet Charge’ present individuals caught up in conflicts. However‚ the speaker in ‘Belfast Confetti’ is a civilian whereas ‘Bayonet Charge’ the subject is a soldier who has chosen to go to war. Carson is writing about a topic he knows well as he is an Irish poet living during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Hughes is imagining what it must have been like for a soldier in World War One. The speaker in
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compare the experience of the soldiers in Charge of The Light brigade and Bayonet Charge Bayonet charge is about a WW1 soldier who is running with his heavy rifle across a field under enemy fire. Then suddenly‚ time stops and the soldier questions why he is running towards bullets. Suddenly the soldier notices an innocent hare running across the field under gunfire‚ the hare gets caught up in the gunfire and dies. The poet ends the poem with the soldier instead of fighting for honour and dignity
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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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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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