Analysing Ted Hughes and Liz Lochheads poems
Ted Hughes, Britain's Poet Laureate and easily the most well-known poet of his generation, died of cancer on October 28th 1998. Born August 17, 1930 in Mytholmroyd, a former mill town in the Yorkshire Pennines, Hughes came from humble origins, his father a World War I veteran, carpenter and later shop-keeper. Whatever drove Hughes to become a poet, one of the main influences he cited was the musicality of the West Yorkshire dialect: "Whatever other speech you grow up into, presumably your dialect stays alive in a sort of inner freedom, a separat…
