Jan Mock SP and TH

Question 1

Plath criticism nature

Answer 1

’ nature as a vehicle for Plath’s sensibility’- Vendler

Question 2

Plath criticism religion

Answer 2

‘instead of Christian paraphernalia, the moon is worshipped- kinship’ - Kendall

Question 3

Plath criticism rebirth

Answer 3

’ problem of rebirth and transcendence’- Kroll

Question 4

Plath criticism depression

Answer 4

“Owls talons clenching at my heart”- 1 month before death Plath

Question 5

Hughes criticism violence

Answer 5

violence ‘essential and universal condition of life’ - Rawson

Question 6

Hughes criticism crisis

Answer 6

’ crisis is the catalyst’ - Brandes

Question 7

Hughes criticism poems

Answer 7

“I think of poems as a sort of animal”- Hughes

Question 8

Hughes identity

Answer 8

“In capturing them he was also capturing himself”- Morrison

Question 9

religion and spirituality points

Answer 9

• through nature
• rejects narrator
• desperately searched for

Question 10

poetic process points and poems

Answer 10

• impossible to capture- TMATYT and 2nd Jaguar
• processes feelings- 2nd glance, Tulips
• connection to nature- Wuthering H, thought fox

Question 11

Plath poetic inspiration context

Answer 11

• confessional
• Sexton

Question 12

Hughes poetic inspiration context

Answer 12

• Romantic without sentimentality
• Keats, Yeats

Question 13

Hughes shamanism and crows context

Answer 13

• Studied anthropology
• saw poets as shamans of life
• dreams of animal spirits in youth
• crows in despair of Wevill and Plath death

Question 14

Hughes relationship to nature context

Answer 14

• RAF
• Yorkshire and north
• fishing Mytholmroyd

Question 15

Plath relationship to nature context

Answer 15

• trans atlantic
• anguish in devon and yorkshire

Question 16

identity points

Answer 16

• as an observer
• powerful
• vulnerable

Question 17

Plath gender and sexuality context

Answer 17

• 50s housewife
• anguish as a mother
• felt sexually trapped
• Lacan

Question 18

power points and poems

Answer 18

• given narrator through observation- ariel
• in nature
• through breaking boundaries and transgressing- snowdrop and ariel

Question 19

Plath ariel context

Answer 19

• airy spirit eventually released by Prospero in The Tempest
• the name of a horse that Plath used to ride in Devon

Question 20

new life points

Answer 20

• bringing violence and terror
• rejuvenation and jubilant
• essential for life

Question 21

new life poems

Answer 21

• bringing violence and terror- elm, thistles
• rejuvenation and jubilant- ariel, thought fox
• essential for life- october sun, munich mannequins

Question 22

violence points

Answer 22

• inherent in nature
• invasive and relentless
• through opression
• generational

Question 23

death points

Answer 23

• hopeless
• peaceful
• natural- inherent in nature

Question 24

Plath death context

Answer 24

• suicide 1963
• barrage of literary rejections and her husband’s infidelity
• multiple attempts

Question 25

pain and suffering points

Answer 25

• through hopelessness and loneliness
• through entrapment
• generational- through children
• inherent in nature

Question 26

Plath father context

Answer 26

• German scientist, FBI’s investigation for pro-German sympathies during World War I
• leg amputated