Ted Hughes: Caryatids (1)

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Caryatids (1)

Birthday Letters, London: Faber & Faber, 1998

1045-1046

Relationship to Classical text Hughes imagines birds in terms of Olympian deities.

Comment Architectural and sculptural allusion that grows into a metaphor for one of Plath's early poems.

The whole Birthday Letters sequence has been interpreted in terms of Classical Mythological relationships. For example, Hughes as Orpheus mourning Eurydice.