Ted Hughes / Sylvia Plath Criticism 5.0 / 5 based on 5 ratings ? English LiteratureTed Hughes, Sylvia PlathA2/A-levelWJEC Created by: tommanneringCreated on: 01-06-18 14:12 Linda Martin: 'Plath's language speaks loudly about the anger of being both betrayed and powerless' - 1 of 18 Anne Stevenson: 'A fanatical preoccupation with death and rebirth' - 2 of 18 Warren: 'Sylvia Plath's poetry can be very forceful and urgent' - 3 of 18 Warren: 'This is visual poetry of a high order' - 4 of 18 Warren: 'Plath's poems are full of life and colour, even when the tone is dark and comfortless' - 5 of 18 Hardwick: 'Her fate and her themes are hardly separate and both terrible' - 6 of 18 Axelrod: 'Plath's poems seethe with anger, hope, desire and disappointment' - 7 of 18 Axelrod: 'Plath's poems contain exposure of material meant to be personal' - 8 of 18 Kroll: "Plath mythologises her experiences making them bigger' - 9 of 18 Kendall: 'Plath is a poet constantly remaking herself' - 10 of 18 Oswald: "His poems sound deeper and richer than human language .. include the whole sacred and speechless background of nature' - 11 of 18 Sagar: 'The language of imagination is necessarily biocentric' (Hughes) - 12 of 18 Kinsella: 'Hughes's technique is submerged in metaphor and simile' - 13 of 18 Drangsholt: 'Hughes represents thematic and stylistic innovation in the context of a religious, spiritual and mythic past' - 14 of 18 Bentley: 'Crow poems were seen as pathologically violent, anti human, sadistic' - 15 of 18 Sagar: 'Hughes refused to believe in the hubristic lies about the supremacy of man towards nature' - 16 of 18 Sagar: 'Hughes persisted that nature can't be subdivided' - 17 of 18 Armitage: 'For Hughes, poetry was a connecting rod between nature and humanity' - 18 of 18
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