COMMENATRY/ ANALYSIS ON THE POEM “THE PIKE” BY TED HUGHES: The poem begins with a description of a baby pike‚ and we are given the impression that right from the very moment of birth this creature is in possession of some pretty chilling characteristics. “…Killers from the egg…” In the first three stanzas‚ the persona sets the scene and describes the voracious‚ ruthless nature of this fish. In these stanzas‚ the fish and its environment occupy the center of attention. “Pike‚ three inches long
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One of the famous figure of 20th century British poetry‚ Ted Hughes was born in Mytholmroyd‚ Yorkshire in 1930. After serving as in the Royal Air Force‚ Hughes attended Cambridge‚ where he studied archeology and anthropology‚ taking a special interest in myths and legends. In 1956 he met and married the American poet Sylvia Plath‚ who encouraged him to submit his manuscript to a first book contest run by The Poetry Center. Ted Hughes was very passionate by animals‚ nature‚ myths and he used them
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back as a grown man. I felt as though I should have been excited to go home‚ but the war had gone on too long to imagine a life without it. The soldier life had been indoctrinated into us. German Civilian at the Home Front Freida Gotze was born in Berlin‚ in 1885. Freida came from a middle class family and was the daughter of a university professor. She spent much of her time during the war‚ advocating for the importance of women in the workforce. Being from a scholarly family‚ she developed
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compared? What is the basis for the comparison? Q 6 What does the phrase ‘her barred face identity mask’ mean? Q 7 ‘The whole tree trembles and thrills’. Explain the poetic device used by the poet. Q 8 ‘It is the engine of her family‚ she strokes it full.’ Explain the significance of these lines. Q 9 Explain the line ‘And the laburnum subsides to empty’. * Four Marks Type: Q 10 A few leaves yellowing‚ all its seeds fallen Till the goldfinch comes‚ with a twitching chirrup A suddenness
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Foundation of Ted Hughes’ work Who was Ted Hughes? What’s so special bought him that he was able to use his own life experiences to create wonderful poems? Ted Hughes wrote bought anger sorrow and regret because he saw people in pain‚ his own wife passed away and he regrets his actions from the past. Edward James Hughes or more commonly known as Ted Hughes was born in August 17‚ 1930 at 1 Aspinal Street‚ in Mytholmroyd‚ West Yorkshire to William Henry and Edith Hughes. When Hughes was seven his
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Love and Death (Analysis of “When You are Old” and “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” by W.B.Yeats) Ⅰ. Love In William Butler Yeats poem "When You Are Old‚" an anonymous narrator requests of a former lover to remember her youth and his love for her‚ creating a surreal sense of mystery that only reveals some shadows of his own past love life. Yeats’ diction changes as the poem progresses from stanza to stanza. In the first stanza‚ I believe the narrator is a man‚ who wrote this poem for his
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conflicting perspectives” Discuss this statement in reference to Ted Hughes ‘Sam’ and Sylvia Plath’s ‘Whiteness I Remember’. Composers construct their own representations of events‚ personalities or situations; they manipulate the features of their texts in order to achieve a particular effect/impact on the responder. These constructions can be influenced by many factors and thus this leads to conflicting perspectives amongst texts. Ted Hughes poem ‘Sam’ and Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘Whiteness I Remember’
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In her novel‚ Full Cicada Moon‚ Marilyn Hilton uses repetition to show that Mimi or someone else cares about what is repeating. Authors can use repetition to show a theme‚ certain topic‚ object‚ or idea that is important to the story. If a word or phrase is repeated‚ you hear it multiple times‚ resulting in the idea sticking in your head. After Mimi’s first home ec class‚ Hilton repeats the phrase‚ “I have a notion”. “I have a notion that Mama and I will go downtown this Saturday. I have a notion
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The moon The moon is the only natural satellite of Earth. The moon orbits the Earth from 384‚400 km and has an average speed of 3700 km per hour. It has a diameter of 3476 km‚ which is about ¼ that of the Earth and has a mass of 7.35e22 kg. The moon is the second brightest object in the sky after the sun. The gravitational forces between the Earth and the moon cause some interesting effects; tides are the most obvious. The moon has no atmosphere‚ but there is evidence by the United States
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the different ways in which Ted Hughes portrays nature in his poems as well as themes and ideas‚ you should consider the poems techniques? Ted Hughes is an English poet who was inspired by nature at his homeland in Yorkshire and wrote countless poems on this topic. I have studied several poems (Thistles‚ The thought fox‚ the jaguar‚ the horses‚ Hawk roosting‚ Pike‚ and Ghost Crabs). Within these poems I am going to compare the ways and techniques in which Ted Hughes portrays nature using poetic
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