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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    The main difference between Plath’s and Hughes’ poetry‚ is that Plath writes about her own experiences. Whereas Hughes experience is second hand‚ he writes about his own pain though Plath’s experiences. In the poem Daddy‚ Plath is talking about her childhood. She is writing as she remembers it. On the other hand the way Hughes writes Tender place is through Plath’s experience of electrocution. The Poem ‘Daddy’ is set in Sylvia’s childhood. It is a very violent and conflicted poem. She is talking

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    Hughes makes reference to Plath’s problems‚ implying her “exaggerated American grin “as false‚ having a purpose of its own. The content Plath was there for the “cameras‚ the judges‚ the strangers‚ the frighteners”‚ the extended metaphor suggesting the intrinsic connection issues between Hughes and Plath were caused from external forces. Furthermore the allusion of her “Veronica lake bang” and “what it hid...”suggests that appearances can be deceiving and raises questions about Plath’s

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    Sylvia Plath’s poem‚ ‘Whiteness I Remember’‚ and Ted Hughes’s poem‚ ‘Sam’‚ are two poems which describe an experience of Plath’s when she was a student at Cambridge. She was out on her first ride when the horse she had hired the normally-placid Sam‚ bolted. Although Ted Hughes’s is describing the experience he uses insinuations throughout the poem to let out his perception of his marriage with Sylvia Plath‚ hence infuriating‚ the conflict in perspective between the two poems. The ideas of ‘conflicting

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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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    ‘Imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it.’ –Ted Hughes‚ Poetry in the Making Edward James Hughes was English Poet Laureate from 1984 to his death in 1998. Famous for his violent poems about the innocent savagery of animals‚ Ted Hughes was born on Mytholmroyd‚ in the West Riding district of Yorkshire‚ which became "the psychological terrain of his later poetry" (The Literary Encyclopedia). He was married to the famous Sylvia Plath from 1956 up to her controversial suicide in 1956

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