Need to do a Ted Hughes analysis? Are you lost when it comes to the textual conversations Module? Do you find poetry confusing?
In Episode #8 Part 2 of our HSC English Lit Program, Rowan and Brooklyn are going to do a step-by-step Ted Hughes analysis of the text ‘Red’ within the prescribed text ‘Birthday Letters’.
向下滚动并找到频段6示例段落，将显示您需要做的事情。
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Connections to Textual Conversations
什么是红色？
Context
主题
TED HUGHES分析
Connections to Textual Conversations
似乎文本conversation between Plath and Hughes is very one-sided. Hughes is writing in second person, directly to Plath, whereas Plath is writing to a much broader audience. However,we should look at the concept of a ‘conversation’ in a broader sense.通过介绍主题来开始对话死亡，压迫，受害者和赋予权力休斯回应了这些主题他自己的观点。虽然普拉斯无法对Hughes做出反应，但我们可以阅读我们的reinterpretationof Plath as a result of Hughes’ poetry as a part of a conversation.
While Hughes shows great empathy and love for Plath in his poetry, he also criticises her for being overdramatic and exaggerating and positions himself as the victim.这使我们可以将推车的诗歌重新诠释为她对休治的不切实际和不公平。
什么是“红色”？
If you engage in a Ted Hughes analysis of the poem, ‘Red’, he addresses Plath, using colour symbolism to describe her identity. It will be up to you as a writer to decide what each of the colours symbolise. In the poem, the colour red is associated with death, immortality and an aztec alter (alluding to the aztec practice of human sacrifice in order to appease the sun God, Huitzilopochtli, and keep the sun in the sky). It is also described as a wound, demonstrating how Hughes believed her obsession with ‘red’ was damaging her, and was even perhaps the reason for her suicide.
Hughes contrasts Red to white, stating, “if not red, then white” was Plath’s colour. Hughes does not explain what he means by white, but the colour is associated with purity and perfection in the Western tradition and death and mourning in many Eastern traditions. Finally, he suggests ‘blue was better for you.’ Again, it is not completely clear what Hughes means by blue, but it is interesting that he associates it with wings, which might indicate freedom and silks and pregnancy which might refer to Plath’s femininity.
It is important to note that the images in the poem often refer to Hughes’ actual experiences rather than collectively understood symbols, and this is where Hughes poetry differs from Plath’s. Despite the mysterious nature of many of the images, we can understand that Hughes is critiques Plath’s dramatic and binary self perception, and that he believes she should have seen herself differently.
Context
Ted Hughes（1930年 - 1988年）是一个有争议的人物，其名称将永远与Sylvia Plath和她的死亡相关联。休斯于1956年结婚普拉斯，他们持续了婚姻六年。这对夫妇于1962年分开，当普拉斯发现休斯与Assia Wevill有症状。六个月后，1963年，普拉斯杀死了自己。休斯在墓碑上写了“Sylvia Plath休斯”，雕刻被许多人被愤怒地破坏了他向他的名字添加了他的名字。
Many of Plath’s admirers blamed Hughes for Plath’s death, and ‘Birthday Letters’ has been read as his defence against those who criticised him.
主题
“红色”的主题包括：
- 精神疾病
- 死亡
- 超越
- Dramatic binaries
- 性别角色
现在我们知道我们正在寻找什么，我们如何进行TED Hughes分析？
分析
我们有两个关键的分析规则，我们专注于所有#help剧集。这些是：
规则1：确保我们将我们的技术与我们的想法联系起来。不要只是提出一种无关的技术，因为它在你的榜样。确保与您正在谈论的整体想法有关
规则＃2：The second rule is, make sure you’re actually saying something meaningful about your idea. Students have a tendency to just label what their idea is at the end of their point. So, we want to make sure that when we’re analysing, each point is saying something new and something meaningful about the idea.
第1步：有一个论点
You can’t write analysis without having an argument which you are trying to prove.有一个论点很重要，因为这意味着您对分析中的技术的讨论将有意义，因为它有一个目标。
您的分析也在努力证明争论，而不是仅仅是一个主题也很重要。For example, rather than just basing our analysis around the theme of ‘emotions’ in the following analysis, we will be trying to prove that“用红色，休斯批评普拉斯在激烈的情绪之间的剧烈振荡，通过”红色“和”白色“的颜色象征主义来简化它们。
Step 2: Choose your examples
When you are choosing your examples, you always want to make sure there is a technique that you can say something about. Sometimes a quote might say your idea clearly, but if there is no technique with an effect, it is not worth including. We have chosen a contrast between two quotes as our first example:
“我们的房间是红色的”
和
“书架逃到白天”
第3步：识别您的技术
当您选择要分析的技术时，您希望使用您可以深入讨论的技术，而不是在肤浅级别。它还需要成为一种技术，您可以链接到段落的整体思想。请记住，您可以使用多个
For this reason, we have identified the techniquesymbolism.
Struggling to find a technique? Check out our English technique cheat sheet here!
第4步：执行您的分析
When you are writing your analysis, it is important that you show the effect of the technique, and then link this effect to your overall argument, as we have done below:
他的描述，主要使用现实的事件和主题作为象征主义：“我们的房间是红色的”和“书架逃到白天”，将他的诗歌接地，与普拉斯诗歌的现实鲜明对比。此外，红白，批判普拉瑟的彩色象征主义，世界的二进制视图，最终将她简化为暴力和热情（红色）或纯（白色）。
将分析放入T恤表中
什么是TEE表？
The TEE in TEE table stands for Technique, Example and Effect. They’re a great tool you can use to analyse your text.
您所要做的就是在“示例”下包括您的证据，然后在“技术”列中识别该技术，并执行您的分析。
以下是我们如何将这段分析放入T恤表中的一个例子。
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