Plath and Hughes - CRITICS Flashcards
Thomas Mcclean - plath is a brutal poet
‘At brutal best, and Plath is a brutal poet, she taps into a source of power that transforms her voice into a racing avenger of womanhood and innocence’
Van Dyne - lesbos commentary
‘incoherent splenetic outburst’
Butscher - Lesbos’ commentary
‘petty revenge gossip and whining decked out as art’
Simon Armitage - Physicality of Hughes poems
‘Physicality of the poems is very much connected to him as a person’
JB - Hughes on war
‘War and controversy is connected to him’
Feinstein - Hughes and death
‘He became very unsentimental about death’
T. Brian - Plaths feelings about england and america
‘Plaths feelings about both England and America were ambivalent’
JB - Hughes and landscape
‘He himself was part of that landscape, elemental and unchangeable’
Amritage - hughes bible
‘agricultural dialogue of the bible’
Markey - Plath
‘she made language into a verbal insult’
Bate - Plath and life
‘in spite of the prevailing doom evident in her poems, it is impossible to say anyone else could be more in love with life
Bates - Plath and Water
Water was a primal substance in Plaths life
Bates - Plath and Happiness
‘No one was more capable of happiness then she was’
Morrison - Hughes/darwinian
‘Hughes sees a brutal darwinian struggle for survival’
Plath and Frieda
I have the queerest feeling of being reborn with frieda
