回复: Ted huges woe's!
dumpling child said:
Okay, someone tell me what this topic is really about???
I'm so confused ><
I'm studying ted hughes atm and its about "telling the truth" and the "representations of truth"
its all about Syliva Plath and her life. I don't understand where you can really extract 'truth' from that. How do you know something that is accepted to be true or can say someone has the authority to say it is true?
GAH SO CONFUSED >< help please oh kind people?
Haha fuck and I thought I was clueless cause I've been sleeping in class.
Basically the whole module is based around the Birthday Letter's poems that Hughes released a few years after Sylvia's suicide.
The poems are mainly written by Hughes (he also released a few of Plaths' poems) and it expresses his view on their marriage. The reason it's called "Telling the Truth" is that there have been very suspicious circumstances to the cause of Plaths' suicide.
Plath's also a poet, and her supporters state that Hughes was the reason for her suicide (he did kinda leave her for another woman, whom ironically also suicided). The Birthday Letters raises questions such as is Hughes perception of the truth really the truth? Did he release these letters to get the last word? Or did he want to clarify some things that Plath may have stated that could be mis-interpretted?
Also take note that the module is
Telling the Truth, not "the Truth". We are to explore ways in which the truth can be told, how different methods can manipulate the truth. On top of this, the truth can be perceived in different ways, how one perception can be different from another and that the perception of another perception may not necessarily be the truth either (ie. Your Paris, Hughes refers to Plath's perception of Paris as "Your paris etc. etc." but this is only HIS perception of HER perception, which may not be true at all).
Good luck !
