Plath and Hughes Critics Flashcards
What does Warren say about Plath’s view on death?
“disconcerting ambivalence about living”
What does Bate say about Hughes?
“poet of darkness, but also of light”
What does Roberts suggest about how Plath and Hughes effected each other’s works?
“their mutual influence is obvious”
What did Plath say about her own desires?
“I desire things which will destroy me in the end”
What does Norton say about how Plath and Hughes poems are viewed?
“through the eye of the predator [or] the victim”
What does Uroff say about Plath’s style?
“makes the self the center of her poems”
What does Bate say about Hughes’ harsh style?
“God of granite”
What does Bate say about Hughes’influences?
“Ted the wild apocalyptic shaman”
What does Cox say about the purpose of Hughes’ poems?
“has no moral lessons to teach
What does Bedient say that suggests he violence in Hughes’ poems are perverse?
“voyeur of violence”
What does Paulin suggest which is positive about Hughes’ nature poems?
“a form of disguised social comment”
What does Bate suggest that counters popular views about Plath?
“no one could have been more in love with life”
Why does Warren suggest Plath’s poems are so horrid?
“deliberately provocative and subversive”
What does Warren suggest about women which is why Plath wanted to escape?
“constricting limits of female identity”
What does Markey say about what love reflects in Plath’s poetry?
“The ideal of romantic love [is] a myth which trivialises women and makes them powerless”
Rees
“whether Plath wrote about nature [or] individuals, she stripped away the polite veneer”
Bate
“completely at home […] in the landscape”
Feinstein
“irresistible masculinity”
