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Song by Ted Hughes

Before he became Poet Laureate, before his long illustrious career, before he met
Plath or even set foot on Cambridge grounds, 19-year-old Edward James Hughes
wrote the poem Song. Dismissed by some as overwrought juvenilia, there is a
power and eerie prescience in its imagery. Like the unworldly light of fixed star, it
seems to have revealed a future that was yet to unfold.
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1. What figurative language does Hughes use to create child-like images?
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2. What is the mood of the poem? How do you know this?
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3. Explain the effect of Hughs use of personification.
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4. What do you notice about each stanza? How does anaphora add to the
overall effect of the poem?
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5. Do you think the lady exists? Why or why not? Explain using evidence from
the poem.
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6. What effect does Hughes create when he begins using the pronoun I in the
poem?
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7. What is the speakers message?
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8. What emphasis does the repetition of O my lady have on the poem?
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