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- Introduce poem and author
- General information about Ted Hughes
- Nature influenced writing
- Education
- Marriage and Sylvia Plath
- “Wind” was first published in 1957 as part of The Hawk in the Rain.
- Rhyme scheme and structure
- No concrete rhyme scheme or meter
- Six quatrains
- Read poem aloud
- Distinctions between night and day
- Through what different methods does Hughes achieve these distinctions?
- Literary Criticism and Terms
- Literary Movements
- Hughes is a modern poet but many consider him to write as a romanticist.
- Poetic interpretation
- There is no real interpretation of “Wind.” Many critics have attempted to derive an interpretation based on Hughes’s relationship with his wife, but this theme does not run throughout the entirety of the poem. Thus, it appears that Hughes is simply writing a poem which depicts a severe and harsh storm and the way it affects various objects.
- Go over activities
- Questions?
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