Ted Hughes poems:
1. The Other.
● In what ways does Hughes powerfully capture the
feelings of the narrator in this poem?
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Ted Hughes's reflection of his dynamic with his wife through the
third person perspective.
1. Hughes has captured the guilty feeling of his
throughout the poem from dramatic monologue,
following the suicidal death of his wife leading to
Hughes blaming himself with third voice narrating,
confessing how he think he has pushed her to suicide
and guilt has taken over him in this poem. It is also
interesting how this is the first and only poem he has
ever written to describe a person; not circling to power
of nature; amplifying the fact how his deceased wife
was so impactful to him that he dedicates a poem to
her.
2. "Everything she had won, the happiness of it," - 'the
other' is a poem where it presents the poet making
poor of the qualities his wife had. According to Ted
Hughes, he collected the "happiness" from her life as a
compensation for "having lost" in the relationship. This
expression refers to how much the poet cared for his
deceased wife, as well as holding himself accountable
for leaving her with "nothing". He took away her
"happiness", resembling her suiciding from the actions.
- "Too late you saw what had happened." - the poet resembles
guilt from the way he treated his wife when she was alive: as in
1. The Other.
● In what ways does Hughes powerfully capture the
feelings of the narrator in this poem?
-'
Ted Hughes's reflection of his dynamic with his wife through the
third person perspective.
1. Hughes has captured the guilty feeling of his
throughout the poem from dramatic monologue,
following the suicidal death of his wife leading to
Hughes blaming himself with third voice narrating,
confessing how he think he has pushed her to suicide
and guilt has taken over him in this poem. It is also
interesting how this is the first and only poem he has
ever written to describe a person; not circling to power
of nature; amplifying the fact how his deceased wife
was so impactful to him that he dedicates a poem to
her.
2. "Everything she had won, the happiness of it," - 'the
other' is a poem where it presents the poet making
poor of the qualities his wife had. According to Ted
Hughes, he collected the "happiness" from her life as a
compensation for "having lost" in the relationship. This
expression refers to how much the poet cared for his
deceased wife, as well as holding himself accountable
for leaving her with "nothing". He took away her
"happiness", resembling her suiciding from the actions.
- "Too late you saw what had happened." - the poet resembles
guilt from the way he treated his wife when she was alive: as in
