“The Shot”
E509883
“The Shot” is a poem by Ted Hughes from his collection *Birthday Letters*, reflecting on his relationship with Sylvia Plath and the forces that shaped her life and death.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| “The Shot” canonical | 1 |
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| addresses | Sylvia Plath NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Ted Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionAwardContext |
Birthday Letters won the Forward Prize for Best Collection
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Birthday Letters won the T. S. Eliot Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionPublicationYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| collectionTitle | Birthday Letters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReception | widely discussed in Plath–Hughes scholarship ⓘ |
| genre | confessional poetry ⓘ |
| hasContext | late reflections by Ted Hughes on Sylvia Plath’s life and death ⓘ |
| hasForm | lyric poem ⓘ |
| includedInCollectionAbout | Ted Hughes’s relationship with Sylvia Plath ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryCollectionAuthor | Ted Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary poetry ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Sylvia Plath
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Ted Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ biographical reflection ⓘ death ⓘ fate ⓘ marital relationship ⓘ psychological trauma ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| partOf | Birthday Letters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays | Sylvia Plath as driven by powerful external forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherOfCollection | Faber and Faber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedPerson |
Sylvia Plath
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Ted Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Ariel
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Daddy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| speaker | Ted Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
blame and responsibility
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inevitability of tragedy ⓘ marital breakdown ⓘ memory and retrospection ⓘ mythologizing of Sylvia Plath ⓘ public perception versus private experience ⓘ suicide ⓘ |
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