Hughes and Plath Comparison Poems - A Level English Literature

The hardest part of Hughes and Plaths’ poetry is finding connections as often their subject matters differ and it is a struggle, out of the vast number in Faber and Faber collection for Plath and Simon Armitage’s selection for Hughes, to find comparisons of language successfully, and to the standard of an A* response.

I have composed a document of “directly linking poems” i.e. poems that pair up the best and have offered some sophisticated and perceptive starting points to aid with in depth and detailed textual analysis of language, form and structure.