"The Tender Place" is an affectionate poem in which Ted Hughes contemplates and describes the Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) inflicted on Sylvia Plath. The human impulse behind this poem is to bring across the negative impact and effects this anti-depression therapy has on her. Through this poem‚ the horror and needless destruction that such therapy implicates is conveyed very impressively. In the first lines‚ Ted Hughes refers to Sylvia Plath’s temples‚ where the electrodes for ECT are placed
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psychiatric care. Plath seemed to make a good recovery and returned to college and graduated with the highest honors. After graduating‚ Sylvia would go on to travel to London and get inspiration for her poems. While in London‚ she met her husband Ted Hughes. The two wound up marrying in London in 1956 and after a year; decided to return to Boston‚ where Sylvia returned to her alma mater to begin teaching. Feeling the burden of not having enough time to write‚ she decided to leave Smith College not
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“You have brains in your head.You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” These wise words came from Theodor Seuss Geisel‚ whose nickname was Ted and pen name was Dr. Seuss. Born on March 2‚ 1904‚ Springfield‚ Massachusetts‚ came a talented author who focused on children’s books. Ted died on September 24‚ 1991. As he said‚ his mother‚ Henrietta Seuss Geisel always chanted rhythms she remembered from her youth‚ to sooth her children to sleep. Ted’s father‚ and grandfather
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Digging Summary The poem begins with our speaker at his desk‚ his pen poised to begin writing. He gets distracted by the sound of his father outside‚ working in the garden‚ and this sends our speaker into a spiral of memories about his father working in the potato fields when the speaker was a young boy. The memory stretches even further back to his grandfather and the hard work he did as a peat harvester (there’s all kinds of hard work going on). Eventually‚ our speaker snaps out of his daydream
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The Greatest Depression of Plath The end of World War One transitioning into the great depression would make for an unlikely time for two European descendants to birth one of the most highly influential poets of their time. October 27‚ 1932 would mark the day that Otto Plath and Aurelia Plath had become the parents of this astounding poet Sylvia Plath. The relationships that she would begin to form with her parents from such a young age would be a unique and complicated tale. Reflections of Sylvia’s
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Fulbright Scholars Where was it‚ in the Strand? A display Of news items‚ in photographs. For some reason I noticed it. A picture of that year’s intake Of Fulbright Scholars. Just arriving Or arrived. Or some of them. Were you among them? I studied it. Not too minutely‚ wondering Which of them I might meet. I remember that thought. Not Your face. No doubt I scanned particularly The girls. Maybe I noticed you. Maybe I weighed you up‚ feeling unlikely. Noted your long hair‚ loose waves
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Hughes deliberately creates myth to ‘correct’ the fundamental flaw in western thinking‚ which is the separation from nature. His intent to metaphorically bring attention to the psyche of society‚ brought upon by WWII‚ through animals and the disconnection from nature is expressed in both ‘The Jaguar’ and ‘Wodwo’. These poems focus on the centrality of consciousness‚ the flaws of humanity and Hughes concern with the need to reconnect with nature due to the trauma of the twentieth century. Hughes is
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WIND- Ted Hughes In this poem‚ Hughes draws a sharp contrast between the sheer intensity and uncontrollable strength if the wind in a storm as opposed to the vulnerability and fragility of man. The poet starts by describing a tremendous gale striking a desolated moorland house and its inhabitants. “The house has been far out at sea all night.” By using this metaphor he compares the house to a boat at sea. The house faces wave upon wave of inexhaustible pounding from the wind‚ as a boat would be
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Ted Hughes’ poem ‘The jaguar’ describes a group of animals living in a zoo‚ caged and sedentary‚ being stared at by onlookers‚ as well as one animal in particular: the jaguar. In this poem‚ we see how certain animals have let their cage define them‚ and have grown into almost inanimate objects whereas the panther‚ symbol of power and greatness‚ has not let itself be confined to the realm of his cage and instead uses his vision‚ his mind‚ to escape the entrapment. Hughes paints an extremely vivid
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The poem “The Pike” by Ted Hughes accentuates the drama that takes place in the calm but dangerous murky ponds that surround us. In every stanza of the poem‚ Hughes emphasizes that the pike is merciless and barbaric. Since Ted Hughes is a contemporary writer who wrote many poems relating to nature‚ he was able to give detailed imagery on two sides of the pike which was the majestic side of it‚ its elegance and the savageness of the Pike being a natural born killer. Hughes also attempts to link the
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