critics final

Question 1

tisdall on hughes’ voice (full moon, view of a pig)

Answer 1

voice of the countryside

Question 2

parnell on plath

Answer 2

her submission, her duty, her silence

Question 3

dobbs on plath (lesbos)

Answer 3

faced a conflict between family and career
domestic entrapment as wife and mother

Question 4

muir on hughes
x2

Answer 4

poetry of violence
jaguar embodies admirable violence

Question 5

rosanthal said plath saw herself as (suicide off egg rock)

Answer 5

skilled suicide artist

Question 6

larkin on plath

Answer 6

horror poet

Question 7

hughes … gulf between

o’ connor

Answer 7

civilised man and man’s animal self

Question 8

lomas on hughes

Answer 8

assault on our culture

Question 9

seyersted on plath

Answer 9

landscape is a metaphor for feelings of being insignificant and exposed

Question 10

sagar on hughes

Answer 10

is a wudwo in all his poems, asking questions of the world

Question 11

uroff

Answer 11

Plath’s self = weak and submissive
Hughes’ self = self represents witness to elemental control

Question 12

Ian Gregson (violence)

Answer 12

His interest in violence was closely linked to his struggle with masculinity.

Question 13

sinfield - daddy

Answer 13

jews and women among victims of institionalised violence in western civilisation

Question 14

alverez -

Answer 14

daddy is a love <3 poem

Question 15

malcom - plath

Answer 15

tulips is a hym to the death wish

Question 16

markey - plath

Answer 16

yorkshire poems are uniformly bleak and negative

Question 17

graves

Answer 17

poetry is rooted in magic

Question 18

lowell and sexton

Answer 18

urged plath to write about private subjects