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Thistles by Ted Hughes
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Ted Hughes during an interview about how he likes to tell his stories to his children, and then him reading a portion from one of his poems.
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War is Everlasting
He was a British poet from 1984 until his death in 1998. In 2008 The Times ranked Hughes fourth on their list "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945." Hughes loved to be in the outdoors his favourite activities were outdoor activities. Hughes marries an American poet, Sylvia Plath.
Thistles are weeds that keep popping up and never truly disappear. Hughes compares this to war on how our world will always have some type of war going on.
Ted Hughes was trying to reach out to people with this poem by getting them to understand that war is nonstop. He talks about how the fathers pass down the weapons to their sons and this will continue on for generations. He compares it to thistles because they are spiky weeds that once you pull them out of the ground, they will just grow right back up. He says how "thistles spike the summer air," and when we compare that to war it is showing us on how he feels negative about it.
Ted Hughes
Hughes talks about how then the soldiers grow grey like men and then they pass it down to their sons.
He is ranked of of the best poets of his generation. He was a British poet, born in 1930 and died in 1998.
"Thistles" by: Ted Hughes