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
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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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"Art is the illusion in which we see the truth"- Pablo Picasso Langston Hughes clearly connects with a wide range of audiences through the simplicity that surrounds his poetry. The beauty of this manner in which he wrote his poetry‚ is that it grasp people by illustrating his narratives of the common lifestyles experienced by the current American generation. His art form expresses certain questionable ideologies of life and exposes to the audience what it takes to fully comprehend what being an
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about poetry; it can be interpreted in several ways. None of them is wrong‚ though. It is just a matter of creativity and imagination. Stumbling across three poems (“The Thought-Fox”‚ “Two Trees”‚ and “Digging”)‚ you can see that each of them may look different. However‚ in some way‚ they all relate! The poems include various forms of creativity and art; yet‚ they all contribute in describing the process of writing a poem in their own unique styles. In the poem “The Thought-Fox”‚ the poet‚ Ted Hughes
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Thistles by Ted Hughes The title ‘thistles’ refers to a group of flowering plants characterised by leaves with sharp prickles. The poem is very short and is separated into four stanzas of three lines each. The poem does not have a rhyming pattern but uses much alliteration. The poem conveys a negative mood‚ one that is aggressive and violent. In the first stanza‚ Hughes portrays an almost countryside atmosphere for the readers to experience. He uses alliteration: “hoeing hands” that describe the
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Saying Hughes represents animals as alien and opposed to the civilised human consciousness is not a satisfactory answer or complete analysis of the seventeen poems that have been studied. It is only a generalisation. It is true that most of the poems do have animals represented as opposed to this human outlook in that the animals are shown to display cannibalism‚ extreme brutality‚ no remorse‚ a total lack of maternal grief as in Ravens‚ and‚ as in The Hen‚ the repeated killing of weak hens by the
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jaguar‚ so that its brutality and energy is enhanced. The next stanza continues from stanza one and begins with ’lie still as the sun’. This phrase illustrates the ordinariness and dullness of the animals because of the sharp sounds of each word. Hughes again uses metaphors to appeal to the audience’s sense of sight in describing the boa constrictor as fossils‚ which strengthens the image of the animal as timeworn and ancient as a result of their captivity. Alliteration is immediately followed as
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------------------------------------------------- SKETCHING ------------------------------------------------- Jesus and the Adulteress. A sketched figure composition by Rembrandt van Rijn Charcoal sketch of willows by Thomas Gainsborough A sketch (ultimately from Greek σχέδιος – schedios‚ "done extempore") is a rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not usually intended as a finished work.[4] A sketch may serve a number of purposes: it might record something that the artist sees‚ it
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traditional styles of poetry and verse. Modernists experimented with literary form and expression‚ adhering to Ezra Pound’s maxim to "Make it new." The modernist literary movement was driven by a conscious desire to overturn traditional modes of representation and express the new sensibilities of their time. The horrors of the First World War saw the prevailing assumptions about society reassessed such as Sigmund Freud questioned the rationality of mankind. Edward James "Ted" Hughes‚ OM (17 August 1930 –
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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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