structure and context in the wuthering heights poems?

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what is the structure and context in the wuthering heights poems and how do they bring emotion etc?

ted hughes . sylvia plath

thanks but im looking for the poems by ted hughes and sylvia plath of the same name as the novel

Answer 1

OK. I returned to look for the poem further. Quite a feat looking for it.

Plath's poem is written in response to her visit to Haworth. It is very egocentric. Unlike Hughes’ "Wuthering Heights", the beginning is particularly attention grabbing, as Plath informs the reader of how
“The horizons ring me like *******,
Tilted and disparate, and always unstable.
Touches by a match, they might warm me”.
The fact that the horizon calls to her mind an image of being burnt alive is startling, as horizons are associated with a sense of freedom and liberation. From this detailed account of how the horizon makes Plath feel, her ego-centricity is immediately established, as Plath is the subject of both sentences, and the pronoun “me” is repeated.
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Plath's poem contains excellent physical imagery. The landscape becomes a metaphor for her personal feelings.Plath seems very self conscious, very pessimistic and very alone.

'The grass is beating its head' can be associated with mentally disturbed people,(they often hit themselves in anger), this perhaps reflects Plath's state of mind.

I have also noticed that Plath is the main focuss of her poem, she does not mention that Hughes was with her at the time again, this gives me a sence that Plath was lonely and depressed. Also, in Plaths poem, the land seems disinterested in its surroundings, unlike in Hughes' poem of the same name.

Somehow, Plath identifies with the landscape, she really gets something out of it. I find Plath's poem very disturbing but, in strange ways i can relate to it.


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Wuthering Heights

The horizons ring me like *******,
Tilted and disparate, and always unstable.
Touched by a match, they might warm me,
And their fine lines singe
The air to orange
Before the distances they pin evaporate,
Weighting the pale sky with a soldier color.
But they only dissolve and dissolve
Like a series of promises, as I step forward.

There is no life higher than the grasstops
Or the hearts of sheep, and the wind
Pours by like destiny, bending
Everything in one direction.
I can feel it trying
To funnel my heat away.
If I pay the roots of the heather
Too close attention, they will invite me
To whiten my bones among them.

The sheep know where they are,
Browsing in their dirty wool-clouds,
Gray as the weather.
The black slots of their pupils take me in.
It is like being mailed into space,
A thin, silly message.
They stand about in grandmotherly disguise,
All wig curls and yellow teeth
And hard, marbly baas.

I come to wheel ruts, and water
Limpid as the solitudes
That flee through my fingers.
Hollow doorsteps go from grass to grass;
Lintel and sill have unhinged themselves.
Of people and the air only
Remembers a few odd syllables.
It rehearses them moaningly:
Black stone, black stone.

The sky leans on me, me, the one upright
Among all horizontals.
The grass is beating its head distractedly.
It is too delicate
For a life in such company;
Darkness terrifies it.
Now, in valleys narrow
And black as purses, the house lights
Gleam like small change.

Sylvia Plath

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wuthering-heights/


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structure and context in the wuthering heights poems?
what is the structure and context in the wuthering heights poems and how do they bring emotion etc?

ted hughes . sylvia plath

Answer 5

I would tell you what it is I am having issue with but it is your work to change if you like I would drop crystal as it lenghens the beat and is unneccsseary leave one or the other formal or graceful out leave out love to or all in the doing what line each changing year rather than every these are my nit picks but it is your poem