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Ted Hughes

Poet of animals and violence. His father survived Gallipoli and never spoke about it.

Percy Bysshe ShelleyWilliam BlakeWilliam WordsworthRobert BrowningAlfred, Lord TennysonWilfred OwenSeamus HeaneyTed HughesSimon ArmitageJane WeirCarol Ann DuffyImtiaz DharkerCarol RumensJohn AgardBeatrice Garland

The quotes

3 quotes by or about Ted Hughes, in the order they happen.

Bullets smacking the belly out of the air

Hughes · Bayonet Charge · conflict

Bullets punch the air itself. The soldier runs through it.

In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations

Hughes · Bayonet Charge · conflict · power of humans

Mid-run he wonders what machine put him here. Stars, nations, cold clockwork. He is a part in it.

King, honour, human dignity, etcetera

Hughes · Bayonet Charge · conflict · power of humans

The big words for why he is fighting. Etcetera. They fall away when the bullets come.

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