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Ted Hughes Flashcards

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When was Ted Hughes Poet Laureate?

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1984-1989

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What is chracteristic of him because of his Yorkshire chilhood?

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nature & myth, memories of war & masculinity

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Where did he study?

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Cambridge

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What did he study?

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literature –>anthropology, archeology

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Why is the Fulbright Scolarship important?

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That’s how he met his first wife, Sylvia Plath.

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When was Hawk in the Rain published?

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1957

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How is he described?

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As a poet of the wild/ animals

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When was Lupercal published?

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1960

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What did he do with the 1966 Auriel?

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He edited it. (Plath’s work)

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When was Wodwo published?

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1967

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What influenced the dark violence of Crow?

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Assia Wevill’s suicide in 1969

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How is Hughes’s poetry described?

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detachemetn and wry observations of Movement poets, against the negative sublime, brutish strength

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What is his main inspiration?

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nature

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What is nature like in his poetry?

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amoral, fierce power

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How is the modern man represented?

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Aa narrowing his vision, fall into scientific rationality/ into an alienation from the organic world

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What do the image, symbol, myth and nature stand for in his poetry?

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A reinvention of the essential ties between humanity and the world

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How are the archaic energies of instinct and feeling embraced?

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By pre-Christian mythologies, symbol - CROW

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What does the OTHERness of animal life mean?

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That there’s no sentimentalization, awe and fear in the observer

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What are the characteristics of his poetic voice and etechnique?

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formal simplicity, 
economy, 
jarred rhythm, 
repetitions, 
magical incantation, 
physical vividness of descriptions, 
narrative elements
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20
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Which poem is his ars poetica?

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The Thought-Fox

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What is the Thought-Fox about? What are its characteristics?

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The creative process. Ambiguity. Experience and observation, self-reflexivity,imagination & reality

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What is Relic about?

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a philosophy of nature, religion

23
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What is Pike about?

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predatory instinct

24
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What is the structure of Pike?

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  1. description
  2. childhood memory/ home
  3. childhood memory/ nature/ cultural memory
25
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What is Wodwo about? What are its characteristics?

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a wild man between human and animal

, human intellect and consciousness. free-flowing verse with repetitions - uncertainty

26
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What was the inspiration for the Crow, 1970?

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Leonard Baskin’s drawings

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What are the general features of Crow, 1970?

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adressing ultimate religious questions, narrative (God vs. Crow), antagonist Bible, creation and destruction myth, influenced by oral poetry, trickster myths

28
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How can Crow be described?

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as a myth that parallels and denies the biblical

29
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What are the answers in the Crow?

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survival and egoism

30
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What are the features of Crow poem?

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primerlike vocab, impersonal POV; admiration of brutish strength, enyielding energy, survival of the fittest

31
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What is February 17th?

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A poem about negative sacrifice - birth and death

32
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What is Moortown Diary (1979) based on?

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A diary entry from there life on a farm in Devon

33
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What is Moortown Diary (1979) about?

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an account of an ill-delivering of a lamb –> death in birth

34
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What characterizes the Moortown Diary (1979)?

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unemotional, naturalistic description

35
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What is the sturcture of Moortown Diary (1979)?

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lamb- born - head - body

36
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What was Birthday Letters for Hughes?

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a direct, private, inner contact with his first wife

37
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What is the feminist myth of Hughes?

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That he killed both of his wives.

38
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What are the characteristics of Love Song, 1970?

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Confessional poetry, memory, evocation

39
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Is Hughes a confessional poet?

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No, he’s traditionally anti-confessional

40
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Why was publushing Birthday Letters an inner liberation?

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He could say things he desperately needed to share.

41
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What does Birthday signify?

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death/ birth - rebirth

42
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What is characteristic of Birthday Letters?

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memory (present and past fused), fatalism, evocation, basic oppositions

43
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What is Fulbrigth Scolars about?

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firt glimpse of Sylvia, uncertainty of memory, future hidden in past

44
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What is Fulbrigth Scolars allude to?

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Prufrock - eating peaches

45
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What is Your Paris and You Hated Spain about?

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difference of vision, conscious vs. unconscious

46
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What is Wuthering HEigths about?

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places, writers, fates haunting

47
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What is 9 Willow Street about?

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memory attached to places, bat-bite = sacrifice and danger

48
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What is Orghast?

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a play in an invented language, a myth of Prometheus

49
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What are the titles of his books for children?

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Iron Man, Moon-Whales

50
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Which Hungarian poet did he translate?

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Pilinszky

51
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Who founded the Ted Hughes award?

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Carol Ann Duffy

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