Plath and Hughes critics quotes Flashcards
Quote about Plath’s poetic voice
McClanahan - ‘she taps into a source of power that transforms her poetic voice into a raving avenger of womanhood and innocence’
What did Plath describe Hughes as?
‘my black marauder’
What is a constant in Hughes’ poetry?
Carey - ‘the association of animal life with killing and masculinity are constants in his poetry’
What did Hughes’ dream about the fox cause?
‘beginning of his lifelong interest in magic and shamanism’ - Carey
What did Hughes’ father contribute to his poetry?
Carey - ‘His father had served in the doomed Galipoli campaign [which] filled young Hughes’ imagination with images of bloodshed’
What is Plath for many?
Carey - ‘a feminist martyr’
What is a criticism of Plath’s poetry?
Carey - ‘critics accuse Plath of exorbitant self-dramatisation’
What can we see in Plath’s journals?
Bates - ‘in her journals, she seems to blame her father for dying and deserting her’
What did Plath describe her writing as being like?
‘writing in a train tunnel or God’s intestine’
What was Plath’s feelings about England and America?
Brain - ‘Plath’s feelings about both England and America were ambivalent’
Quote for Tulips
Warren - ‘half way between life and death’
Quote for Thistles about identity
Aird - ‘a sense of oneself as inanimate and without identity’
Quote for thistles
Bates - ‘he himself was part of that landscape’
Hughes quote about industry
Bentley - ‘nature in early Hughes is virtually the product of heavy industry and industrial labour’
Quote for letter in November
‘was the lovingly description of her garden an incantation for a moments relief from pain’
