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    A Study Guide for Ted Hughes's "Relic"
    A Study Guide for Ted Hughes's "Relic"
    A Study Guide for Ted Hughes's "Relic"
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    A Study Guide for Ted Hughes's "Relic"

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    A Study Guide for Ted Hughes's "Relic", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMay 15, 2018
    ISBN9781410393807
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      A Study Guide for Ted Hughes's "Relic" - Gale

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      Relic

      Ted Hughes

      1958

      Introduction

      Relic, a short poem by Ted Hughes, was first published in 1958 and 1959 in periodicals, including Encounter and Harper's. It then became part of Hughes's second poetry collection, titled Lupercal and released in 1960. The poem centers on a jawbone the narrator finds washed up on the beach and the Darwinian struggle that occurred to bring it to that place. The poem was written while Hughes and his wife, American poet Sylvia Plath, were still living together. While Relic, is not one of Hughes's best-known poems, it features themes common to much of his work: nature and its cycles, the human being's alienation from these natural cycles, psychology, and mythology. Hughes grew up in a rural area of England and spent a great deal of time in nature; later in life he was an active defender of environmental causes. The poem appears in Ted Hughes: Collected Poems (2003).

      Author Biography

      Hughes was born Edward James Hughes on August 17, 1930, in Mytholmroyd, a small town in Yorkshire, England. His father was a carpenter and World War I veteran. He was the youngest of three children. When Hughes was seven years old his family moved to Mexborough, in South Yorkshire, where he attended school and first became interested in poetry. At fifteen he began writing his first poems, imitating Rudyard Kipling's tales of Africa.

      Hughes earned a scholarship to attend Pembroke College at Cambridge but chose first to enlist in the Royal Air Force. He served for two years as a mechanic before beginning his education at Cambridge in 1951, studying English literature for his first two years before shifting to archaeology and anthropology. In 1956, Hughes attended a launch party for a literary journal at Cambridge, where he met the American poet Sylvia Plath, who was studying in England on a Fulbright fellowship. In June of 1956 Hughes and Plath were married. Plath encouraged him to enter a manuscript of his poems into an American contest; the winning book would be published by Harper, a major

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