“The Minotaur”
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“The Minotaur” is a poem by Ted Hughes from his collection *Birthday Letters*, reflecting on his relationship with Sylvia Plath through the mythic figure of the Minotaur.
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| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| The Minotaur | 0 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
literaryWork
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poem ⓘ |
| author | Ted Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionThemeContext | Hughes–Plath relationship ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReceptionContext | controversial reassessment of Hughes–Plath history ⓘ |
| firstPublicationCollection | Birthday Letters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
confessional poetry
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lyric poetry ⓘ |
| hasForm | free verse ⓘ |
| includedIn | Ted Hughes’s late works ⓘ |
| inCollectionPerspective | Hughes’s view of events surrounding Sylvia Plath ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
extended metaphor
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imagery ⓘ mythological allusion ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | late 20th-century British poetry ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person perspective ⓘ |
| partOf | Birthday Letters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Faber and Faber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
Sylvia Plath
NERFINISHED
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Ted Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ guilt ⓘ marital conflict ⓘ memory ⓘ mental illness ⓘ mythology in modern life ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| timeOfPublication | 1998 ⓘ |
| usesMythicFigure | Minotaur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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