but since im unbothered and also it's good practice for u, What's the shot and red about
I swear after every term of eng I get lazier and lazier. I swear it's cause of my replacement teacher
The shot is basically about Hughes describing Plath as 'a bullet' fired by the death of her father which couldn't be controlled. Hughes uses this argument to deflect blame about his role in Plath's suicide from himself and claim that he's also a victim of her father (Otto) instead of a perpetrator.
Red was the final poem in Birthday Letters and describes how the colour red (representative of vitality, danger, death etc.) dominated every aspect of Plath's life (physical, literacy etc.), which Hughes uses to reflect on Plath's creative and psychological identity. At the end, Hughes mentions that "Blue was better for you", basically admitting that he never fully understood Plath as a human being.
Everything here is my interpretation of the poems and should probably be taken lightly