The Poetry Kit |
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Ted Hughes and
Sylvia Plath at Court Green
Among the daffodils, setting for a Greek tragedy: behind the old parsonage, Ted roots out nettles, mulches strawberries. Apple blossoms promise cookers and eaters. He toils to develop a play: a man runs down a hare which he sells to a butcher, obtains cash to purchase red roses for his mistress, or he watches a raven in an oak, undecided to use his shotgun to shoot the bird or himself. Sylvia pegs nappies to the line, dreams of spikes, blood on the moon. A chorus moans judgement: interns watch a post mortem through plate glass. |
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