Flowered Memories: An Analysis of Ted Hughes' Daffodils

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Ollie B

 

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September 1, 2014

 

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He was married to the famous Sylvia Plath from 1956 up to her controversial suicide in 1956. Believed by many to have pushed his wife to suicide, Hughes maintained 35 years of silence on the issue. And on February 1998, Ted Hughes finally broke the silence with the release of Birthday Letters a collection of 88 poems written over 25 years, published by Faber and Faber; Farrar Straus & Giroux...
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Birthday Letters received the T.S. Eliot Prize and " re-ignited the famous controversy and met with mixed critical response" (Poets.org). In it, he addresses Sylvia Plath directly, in a conversational manner, which calls to mind an image of an old man leafing through an album with a ghost. Daffodils, one of the poems featured in Birthday Letters, expressively depicts the initial years of the couple's union...
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