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LEVEL 9 REVISION NOTES ON TED HUGHES' POEM ANNIVERSARY GCSE LITERATURE
LEVEL 9 REVISION NOTES TED HUGHES' POEM "Anniversary"
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ANNIVERSARYMy mother in her feathers of flame
Grows taller. Every May Thirteenth
I see her with her sister Miriam. I lift
The torn-off diary page where my brother jotted * diction infers an
irreverence
“Ma died today” – and there they are.
She is now as tall as Miriam.
In the perpetual Sunday Morning * comforting words of
Of everlasting, they are strolling together an afterlife
Listening to the larks
Ringing in their orbits. The work of the cosmos,
Creation and destruction of matter
And of anti-matter
Pulses and flares, shudders and fades
Like the Northern Lights in their feathers.
My mother is telling Miriam
About her life, which was mine. Her voice comes, piping,
Down a deep gorge of woodland echoes:
“This is the water-line, dark on my dress, look,
Where I dragged him from the reservoir.
And that is the horse on which I galloped
Through the brick wall
And out over the heather simply
To bring him a new pen. This is the pen
I laid on the altar. And these
Are the mass marriages of him and his brother
Where I was not once a guest.” Then suddenly
She is scattering the red coals with her fingers
To find where I had fallen * the three tragedies
in his life
For the third time. She laughs
Helplessly till she weeps. Miriam
Who died at eighteen
Is Madonna-like with pure wonder
To hear of all she missed. Now my mother
Shows her the rosary prayers of unending worry,
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