Plath and Hughes Flashcards

nature personfiies plath?

“In many instances it is nature who personifies her” (Newman)

Nature gives hughes imagination?

“animal instinct and poetic imagination all flow into one” (heaney)

how does plath present everyday life?

“everyday incidents are transformed into the horrifying psychological expierences of the poet” (McClanahan)

Hughes views on violence and power?

“for hughes, violence and power go together” (dyson)

Plaths emphasis on the comfortable inevitability of death?

“death is preeminent but strangely unoppressive” (Newman)

Ted Hughes quote on how he highlights the power of the natural world, and death?

“god of granite” (Bate)

Plath wants death to be perfect?

“concerned with the perfection of death” (Oberg)

Plath as a clear feminist poet?

“rejection of the female role” (Freedman)

Hughes views on wives?

“one man gynocidal movement” (bate)

how plath celebrates motherhood?

“motherhood as triumph” (wright)

Ted Hughes’s obsession with higher powers?

“fascination with the supernatural” (armitage)

Plath quote about identity?

“desire to escape from the narrow, constructing limits of female identity” (Warren)

Plath attacks the female?

“disgust at the human female” (lindberg)

plath as an avenger for women?

“transforms her poetic voice into a ravaging avenger of womanhood and innocence” (McClanahan)

general quote about both poets?

“plath and hughes poetry is reciprocal and cross-pollinated” (gifford)

general quote about both poets in terms of violence?

“Plath and Hughes share a conflict between violence and tenderness” (Webster)