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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

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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
...
   
 
 
 

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
...
 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
...
   
When  the  person  looks  in  the  mirror  and  smiles,  it  is  rather  cynical
...
     
“Shrink  trinket”  –  ideas  are  linked  to  sound,  and  the  whole  cosmos  is  shrinking  into  the  eye  of  
the  person
...
 Astrological  influence  upon  human  lives  –  the  whole  universe  
becomes  a  single  glimt  in  the  eye
...
 Flinging  a  cape  suggests  a  heroic  
role
...
 Man  as  hero  but  also  man  as  
devil  –  Shakespeare
...
 Like  the  
sisters  of  faith
...
 Faustus  
was  a  wizard  and  teacher  who  made  a  deal  with  the  devil    for  24  years  of  unreserved  pleasure  
with  his  own  blood
...
 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
...
 The  
person  experiences  judgement  and  being  scrutinized  by  eyes  of  planets  until  the  spell  is  broken  
of  the  clattering  hoves  of  the  goat
...
 Approaching  like    a  planet  it  hangs,  and  makes  the  human  feel  very  small
...
 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
...
   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
...
     
Capricorn  is  in  astrology  controlled  by  the  planet  Saturn
...
   In  the  palm,  the  mans  gleam  of  blood  is  scrutinized  –  as  seen  in  Cadenza  of  the  
refulgence  (shining)  drop  of  a  Ruby  diamond
...
   
“  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
...
 There  is  a  magnification  of  the  size  of  the  eyes
...
 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