Always use the old sense of the word

TED HUGHES - LAST LETTER Hughes’s reveals the deep dark secrets of his wife’s tragic death describing his movements and thoughts in the three days leading up to the suicide of his first wife, Sylvia Plath. There is a strong sense of emotional power featured in the poetry, as though Hughes feels responsible for his wife’s death. The real emotion lies in the tone of Hughes language, the devastation revealed in each stanza. We experience Hughes pain as audience.
 
Through the strong imagery he uses, claiming that Plath’s death came as an ‘electric shock’ to him.It describes the days leading up to Plath’s suicide, when the pair were living apart, and the night itself, He wrote: ‘What happened that night, your final night? Double, treble exposure over everything.’Late afternoon Friday, my last sight of you alive, burning your letter to me in the ashtray with that strange smile.’ What did you say over the smoking shards of that letter so carefully annihilated, so calmly, that let me release you and leave you to blow its ashes off your plan.’ stating that on receiving the call that his wife was dead it was as though a ‘weapon’ had jabbed him or an ‘Injection’ had pierced him, which shows the absolute pain Hughes was going through. His perception of love is different as it mentions the love that is broken by death a tragic loss, the love that disappears with time. It’s as though after 7 years of faithful marriage to his wife Hughes finally resulted to having an affair. Perhaps this is due to the fact that he couldn’t live with his wife’s illness, her severe depression. Her Hughes guilt comes from the fact that his wife’s death happened due to him, not being loyal, ignoring her trips to the ‘phone booth’ to helplessly speak to him, utter her final words. Plath’s death comes as a mystery, as we are unsure of what could have happened if Hughes did answer his wife’s plea for help.

BY THE LEELEE SPICE YO