Nature P&H Flashcards
(12 cards)
Tulips - start quotes
‘the tulips are too excitable, it is winter here’
‘as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody’
Snowdrop - start quotes
‘round the mouse’s dulled wintering heart’
‘weasel and crow, as if moulded into brass’
Tulips - end quotes
‘the vivid tulips eat my oxygen’
‘between the eye of the sun and the eyes of the Tulips, I have no face’
- homophone of ‘eye’
Snowdrop - end quotes
‘brutal as the stars of this month’
‘her pale head lifts heavy as metal’
Wuthering Heights - start quotes
title
evokes bleakness and greyness of landscape like in bronte’s novel
‘but they only dissolve and dissolve, like a series of promises’
‘i can feel it trying to funnel my heat away’
Pike - start quotes
‘killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin’
‘of submarine delicacy and horror’
‘over a bed of emerald’
Wuthering Heights - end quotes
‘the sky leans on me, me the one upright’
‘black stone, black stone’
‘black as purses, the house lights gleem like small change’
Pike - end quotes
‘has outlasted every visible stone’
‘darkness beneath the night’s darkness had freed’
Critics plath
Eileen Aird: ‘strong force striving to subdue man into its on bleak pattern’
John Kinsella: ‘a nail in the coffin of romanticism - applies better to Plath than to Hughes here
Context Plath
- Plath had just been hospitalised for an appendectomy before writing tulips
- the bell jar - being watched and trapped
- Emily Dickinson: theres a certain slant of light: inseparability of internal experience from external landscape - emotiona despair and natural bleakness are indivisible
- ‘moist withered leaves’ - wuthering heights
- Atlas - helpless & passive carrying the world
Critics Hughes
Chen Hong: a tension between the poets admiration for he animal’s power and his fear of it
Steve Whitaker: the brutality of the season and the natural retreat it precipitates
Context Hughes
- Richard III ‘now is the winter’ - time is frozen
- ‘I was totally obsessed with pike’
