Poet:
Ted Hughes
By
Vanessa De La Cruz
Born August 17th,1930 – 28 October 1998
was an English poet and children's writer.
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He attended Mexborough grammar school, and
wrote his first poems from age of fifteen, some of
which made their way into school magazine.
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Before beginning English studies at Cambridge
University in 1948 , he spent much of his time
reading and rereading all of Shakespeare.
According to my research he could recite it all by
heart.
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He studied first English and then anthropology
and archaeology.
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His first published poem appeared in 1954, the
year he graduated from Cambridge.
Hughes was married to American poet Sylvia
Plath, from 1956 until her death
by suicide in 1963 at the age of 30.
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Some poems make reference to Path ‘s suicide, but
none of them addresses directly the circumstances of
her death.
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Anthologies edited by Hughes
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath
Selected Verse of Shakespeare
A Choice of Coleridge's Verse
The Rattle Bag (edited with Séamus Heaney)
The School Bag (edited with Séamus Heaney)
By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember
Modern Poetry in Translation
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[edit] Short story collection
1995 The Dreamfighter, and Other Creation Tales, Faber and Faber, London, England.
1995 Difficulties of a Bridegroom: Collected Short Stories, Picador, New York, NY.
Books for children
1960 The Earth Owl and Other Moon People
1961 Meet my Folks!
1963 How the Whale Became
1964 Nessie the Mannerless Monster
1967 Poetry in the Making[59]
1968 The Iron Man
1970 Coming of the Kings and Other Plays
1976 Season Songs (illustrated by Leonard Baskin)
1976 Moon-Whales and Other Moon Poems (illustrated by Leonard Baskin
1978 Moon-Bells and Other Poems (illustrated by Felicity Roma Bowers)
1981 Under the North Star (ilustrated by Leonard Baskin)
1986 Ffangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth (illustrated by Chris Riddell)
1987 The Cat and the Cuckoo (illustrated by R. J. Lloyd)
1988 Tales of the Early World (illustrated by Andrew Davidson)
1993 The Iron Woman
1993 The Mermaid's Purse (illustrated by R. J. Lloyd, Sunstone Press)
1995 Collected Animal Poems: Vols. 1–4, Faber & Faber
Wind
Metaphor
This house has been far out at sea all night,
The woods crashing through darkness, the
booming hills,
Winds stampeding the fields under the window
Floundering black astride and blinding wet
Till day rose; then under an orange sky
The hills had new places, and wind wielded
Blade-light, luminous black and emerald,
Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.
At noon I scaled along the house-side as far as
The coal-house door. Once I looked up Through the brunt wind that dented the balls of
my eyes
The tent of the hills drummed and strained its
guyrope,
The fields quivering, the skyline a grimace,
At any second to bang and vanish with a flap;
The wind flung a magpie away and a blackBack gull bent like an iron bar slowly. The
house
Rang like some fine green goblet in the note
That any second would shatter it. Now deep
In chairs, in front of the great fire, we grip
Our hearts and cannot entertain book, thought,
Or each other. We watch the fire blazing,
And feel the roots of the house move, but sit on,
Seeing the window tremble to come in,
Hearing the stones cry out under the horizons.
The poem Wind By Ted Hughes uses many images,
metaphors, personification and similes to effectively
describe The Storms intensity and power.
The poem is situated away from the cities,
presumably in the countryside or in a very
isolated place, this can be supported by the
use of words like “fields” and “hills”.
The line "stampeding the fields“ elaborates
the brutality of the wind attacking the natural
surroundings.
Here the house is
compared to a tree to
convey the fact that the
wind seems to have got
under Hughes' home
and made it vulnerable,
as if it might be ripped
out, uprooted from its
environment.
This shows us that nature is
not to be meddled with and
it has a wild energy which
cannot be stopped
describes the impact and
strength nature has over
human beings.
Why did he used Wind for his poem?
“Wind” to portray the power of the wind
hitting humanity.
The End …..