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An 8 page paper which examines how Ted
Hughes is a poet of death. The paper examines how he is not a celebrant of death but an
adversary. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAtedhgh.rtf
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we see death as the villain that would take away youth, beauty, and love. Ted Hughes is a man who seems to have had a very close relationship with death
as it involved those around him. He is notorious for having been married to Sylvia Plath, whose life he seemed to have helped destroy, ultimately help lead her to committing
suicide. This is perhaps his most obvious relationship with death, a condition which will be discussed further along in the text. And, bearing these realities in mind we present the
following paper which first discusses the life and poetry of Ted Hughes and then discusses how his poetry often approaches death, not as an celebrant, but as an adversary.
The Poetry and Life of Ted Hughes "English poet, dramatist, critic, and short story writer, married to the American poet Sylvia Plath, who committed suicide in 1963. Hughes stated
that poems, like animals, are each one an assembly of living parts, moved by a single spirit" (Anonymous Ted Hughes (1930-1998) - byname of Edward J. Hughes thughes.htm). With his
earlier works he clearly "questioned mans function in the universal scheme. Seriously interested in shamanism, hermeticism, astrology, and the Quija board, Hughes examined in several of his later animal poems
the themes of survival and the mystery and destructiveness of the cosmos" (Anonymous Ted Hughes (1930-1998) - byname of Edward J. Hughes thughes.htm). Another author illustrates how, he "was drawn
towards the primitive. He was enchanted by the beauty of the natural world, frequently portraying its cruel and savage temperament in his work as a reflection of his own personal
suffering and mystical beliefs - convinced that modern man had lost touch with the primordial side of his nature" Bardellted_hughes.html). In short, Hughes was one of the most
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