Her Husband
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Her Husband Analysis
Comes home dull with coaldust deliberately
To grime the sink and foul towels and let her
Learn with scrubbing brush and scrubbing board
The stubborn character of money.
And let her learn through what kind of dust
He has earned his thirst and the right to quench it
And what sweat he has exchanged for his money
And the bloodweight of money he'll humble her
With new light on her obligations
The fried, woody, chips, kept warm two hours in the
Oven
Are only part of her answer
Hearing the rest, he slams them to the fire back
And is away round the horseend singing
Come back to sorrento in a voice
Of resounding corrugated iron
Her back has bunched into a hump as an insult
For they will have their rights
Their jurors are to be assembled
From the little crumbs of soot. Their brief
Goes straight up to heaven and nothing more is heard of it
_________________________
In this poem, Ted Hughes is writing about a man who comes home drunk after work
The wife seems to be a housewife, and we learn from reading the poem that the husband disrespects the wife
While reading this poem, only one could wonder if Ted Hughes was expressing his regret for not appreciating
Sylvia plath like he should've
This was in the WODWO collection, so this was about 4 years after Plaths death
Hughes uses very formal words throughout the Poem, and as readers we see no sort of emotion expressed
throughout the Poem. This could possibly show the coldness of the husband and wife's relationship
In the first two stanzas, he tells us that he "let her" learn which expresses a very harsh master/slave type of
relationship
________________
The poem starts out telling us he "deliberately" or purposely comes home with coal dust, most likely all over his
clothes and hands, and he takes no precautions to not get this in the house, or on things in the house ...
Comes home dull with coaldust deliberately
To grime the sink and foul towels and let her
Learn with scrubbing brush and scrubbing board
The stubborn character of money.
And let her learn through what kind of dust
He has earned his thirst and the right to quench it
And what sweat he has exchanged for his money
And the bloodweight of money he'll humble her
With new light on her obligations
The fried, woody, chips, kept warm two hours in the
Oven
Are only part of her answer
Hearing the rest, he slams them to the fire back
And is away round the horseend singing
Come back to sorrento in a voice
Of resounding corrugated iron
Her back has bunched into a hump as an insult
For they will have their rights
Their jurors are to be assembled
From the little crumbs of soot. Their brief
Goes straight up to heaven and nothing more is heard of it
_________________________
In this poem, Ted Hughes is writing about a man who comes home drunk after work
The wife seems to be a housewife, and we learn from reading the poem that the husband disrespects the wife
While reading this poem, only one could wonder if Ted Hughes was expressing his regret for not appreciating
Sylvia plath like he should've
This was in the WODWO collection, so this was about 4 years after Plaths death
Hughes uses very formal words throughout the Poem, and as readers we see no sort of emotion expressed
throughout the Poem. This could possibly show the coldness of the husband and wife's relationship
In the first two stanzas, he tells us that he "let her" learn which expresses a very harsh master/slave type of
relationship
________________
The poem starts out telling us he "deliberately" or purposely comes home with coal dust, most likely all over his
clothes and hands, and he takes no precautions to not get this in the house, or on things in the house ...