analysis of ted hughes the minotaur and robbing myself
When you read the writings of Hughes in Birthday Letters there is a sense of the depth of the immense grieving and pain underlying each word and meaning. Disguised in his poetry, these reminiscing situations bring the story behind them to light in a maze of metaphors exposing the years of thoughts held back by a inner dam of media martyrdom and regrets in Hughes. In The Minotaur and Robbing Myself the poet reveals times and lives where he once lived along side his star crossed love, Sylvia Plath. The Minotaur. In this poem Hughes delves into the darker sides of Plath, where fits of rage overtook her and depression and pain ruled over her, her anger, and a raging bull, more, a monster existed. It begins with a description of the victims of Plath- a table with nostalgic value, a symbol of his past, and being "mapped with he scars of his whole life"- symbolic of his life, person, and mistakes and pains. She destroys a chair for his being late to care for the children. This could mean that the cause of her anger was his detachment form his children, maybe a detail to emphasize the insanity and reasonless of her rages. ""Marvelous!" I shouted. "Go on, smash it into kindling. That's the stuff you're keeping out of your poe
The house gained memories with the last times there, good and bad. It gained the attributes of casket in its tidy-ness. The windows glowed in the bleak cold, maybe meaning that it was a dark place inside the house; maybe a reference to the sun setting at the church; the symbolic moment for death and the disappearance of light from Earth. Hughes seals himself from the house. Hughes writes his apology to her mother for leaving her a dead end, and talks of her father, who as the Minotaur she had replaced, now filled his grave. He looks upon this, as into a casket to see inside the life contained, but to no avail for he had "already lost the treasure". Robbing Myself. Hughes begins the poem by detailing the cold; the environment symbolizing the lack of life and of emotional emptiness lived. The worst weather, the worst situation, like in much literature the weather reflects personal turmoil. "Fallen Heaven"- referring to the fallen snow and his own fallen heaven, the loss of his hove in live; for that is truly what heaven is, our hope for an uncertain future. "Deep in the cave of you ear The goblin Snapped his fingers. So what had I given him?" Hughes reconsiders the results of his encouragement and wonders if letting the gates open let loose the li
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Fallen Heaven-, Plath Minotaur, Birthday Letters, Robbing Hughes, Earth Hughes, Minotaur Robbing, , minotaur robbing, cold environment,
Approximate Word count = 866
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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