What Are Ted Hughes Conflicting Perspectives
Conflicting Perspectives
Focus Question – How are conflicting perspectives revealed in two of Ted Hughes poems and a related text?
Individuals form perspectives over time reflecting their experiences, knowledge, attitudes, opinions and beliefs. Ted Hughes’ anthology of poems, Birthday Letters (1998), illustrates his personal perspective on his life with Sylvia Plath. The poems ‘Fulbright Scholars’ and ‘Sam’ reveal an array of conflicting perspectives effectively depicted by Hughes. The film The Triumph directed by Randa Haines in 2006 also demonstrates the conflicting perspectives between characters and settings.
‘Fulbright Scholars’ depicts Hughes first sighting of Sylvia Plath as the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in an article in the newspaper. The poem reveals a constant comparison between memory and hindsight to clearly show Hughes’ conflicting perspectives. The poem opens with a rhetorical question, ‘Where was it, in the Strand?’ demonstrating Hughes authenticity in differing his memory from hindsight to denote that The Strand is typically where he would read the newspaper. This establishes Hughes’ conflict in perspective on the situation due to his memory and hindsight.
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He states, ‘when I jumped a fence you strangled me’ to compare that Plath did not attempt to save herself in their marriage like she saved herself on the horse. The alliteration of ‘fell’ and ‘flung’ in ‘then fell off, flung yourself off,’ emphasises Hughes perspective on the situation is that Plath may have fallen at Hughes betrayal, however, she deliberately and forcefully ‘flung’ herself from their marriage when evidently she has the ability to hold on. This reveals conflicting perspectives of Plath’s will power and determination in regards to her horse compared to her
Focus Question – How are conflicting perspectives revealed in two of Ted Hughes poems and a related text?
Individuals form perspectives over time reflecting their experiences, knowledge, attitudes, opinions and beliefs. Ted Hughes’ anthology of poems, Birthday Letters (1998), illustrates his personal perspective on his life with Sylvia Plath. The poems ‘Fulbright Scholars’ and ‘Sam’ reveal an array of conflicting perspectives effectively depicted by Hughes. The film The Triumph directed by Randa Haines in 2006 also demonstrates the conflicting perspectives between characters and settings.
‘Fulbright Scholars’ depicts Hughes first sighting of Sylvia Plath as the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in an article in the newspaper. The poem reveals a constant comparison between memory and hindsight to clearly show Hughes’ conflicting perspectives. The poem opens with a rhetorical question, ‘Where was it, in the Strand?’ demonstrating Hughes authenticity in differing his memory from hindsight to denote that The Strand is typically where he would read the newspaper. This establishes Hughes’ conflict in perspective on the situation due to his memory and hindsight.
The use of qualifiers throughout the poem further contributes to this …show more content…
He states, ‘when I jumped a fence you strangled me’ to compare that Plath did not attempt to save herself in their marriage like she saved herself on the horse. The alliteration of ‘fell’ and ‘flung’ in ‘then fell off, flung yourself off,’ emphasises Hughes perspective on the situation is that Plath may have fallen at Hughes betrayal, however, she deliberately and forcefully ‘flung’ herself from their marriage when evidently she has the ability to hold on. This reveals conflicting perspectives of Plath’s will power and determination in regards to her horse compared to her