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Title: English Literature Ted Hughes Poem : The Meeting
Description: A-Level English Literature notes for analysis of Ted Hughes poem : The Meeting
Description: A-Level English Literature notes for analysis of Ted Hughes poem : The Meeting
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The Meeting – Ted Hughes
He smiles in a mirror, shrinking the whole
Sun-‐swung zodiac of light to a trinket shape
On the rise of his eye : it is a role
In which he can fling a cape,
And outloom life like Faustus
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Tercet : Three lined stanza
The meeting between man and nature, but also the meeting with himself as he “smiles in a
mirror” Possibly a meeting with a part of oneself
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Presiding over black magic
Goats can also be seen in the Classical sense as a symbol for Capricorns and pagan forces that
are possibly linked to ego, lust and mystery
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When the person looks in the mirror and smiles, it is rather cynical
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“Shrink trinket” – ideas are linked to sound, and the whole cosmos is shrinking into the eye of
the person
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Astrological influence upon human lives – the whole universe
becomes a single glimt in the eye
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Flinging a cape suggests a heroic
role
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Man as hero but also man as
devil – Shakespeare
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Like the
sisters of faith
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Faustus
was a wizard and teacher who made a deal with the devil for 24 years of unreserved pleasure
with his own blood
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Writers are like
gods because they have creative powers – like God the creater, but there is a danger of human
hubris – humans think that they are little ghosts, until they meet a ghoast on the mountain
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The
person experiences judgement and being scrutinized by eyes of planets until the spell is broken
of the clattering hoves of the goat
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Approaching like a planet it hangs, and makes the human feel very small
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Humans see themselves
as large images in their mirror, but become a minuscule particle within a grand stage of planets
where god and the devil are pulling strings, and man becomes a part of cosmic struggle
The everyman character is constructed so that the audience can imagine itself in the same
situation without having to possess knowledge, skills, or abilities that transcend
The person is in the hand, and being scrutinised in a massive hand
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When the man meets the goat “four feet” above him, he looks into it’s eyes maybe
meeting his own reflection, and battles his own image
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Capricorn is in astrology controlled by the planet Saturn
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In the palm, the mans gleam of blood is scrutinized – as seen in Cadenza of the
refulgence (shining) drop of a Ruby diamond
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“ Slow cold and ferocious as a star “ – Microcosm and macrocosm idea, possibly the meeting
between two eyeballls – The cosmic eye has a terrifying sidereal (pertaining of stars)
The cosmic brilliant distant coldness in the darkness is a contrast to the warm life and love of
human beings in the universe ( existential, emphasis on loss of religious faith) There is an
illusion of heroism that man seeks to achieve
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There is a magnification of the size of the eyes
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The theme of
illusiveness and existentialism is central to the poem
Title: English Literature Ted Hughes Poem : The Meeting
Description: A-Level English Literature notes for analysis of Ted Hughes poem : The Meeting
Description: A-Level English Literature notes for analysis of Ted Hughes poem : The Meeting