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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 metaph ....

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.... 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 poems." Hughes tells Plath to take her emotions and put them in poems, he makes the positive out of this rage. He encouraged her to think about things, to get in touch with her emotions as one inevitably does when writing. "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 lion, let the demons surface. Here the poem a ....