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
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Some common words found in the essay are:
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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