Ted Hughes - anyone like his stuff?

[vernon]

His work's challenging
I get no joy from his verse
Is it only me?

Responses in Haiku 5-7-5 format please.

 

[Baggy]

From distant schooldays
He is not to my liking
You are not alone

 

[Archie_tect]

4 Quartets... hated it, possibly because we had to 'do' Hughes poetry for O-level. Teenagers reading poetry out loud in a classroom doesn't engender loving memories of the subject.

And yet the war poems of Wilfred Owen [and Siegried Sassoon to a lesser extent] were fantastic and well received by us all.

[Edit: sorry Vernon just noticed Haiku bit...]

 

[Nantmor]

"Four Quartets" is by T.S.Eliot, so I can tell that you did not really get into it.
"Crow" (Ted Hughes) is the only poetry book I have ever bought. Brilliant stuff.

 

[rich p]

Does it rhyme?

 

[Archie_tect]

"Four Quartets" is by T.S.Eliot, so I can tell that you did not really get into it.
"Crow" (Ted Hughes) is the only poetry book I have ever bought. Brilliant stuff.

Ah, yes!!! It's TS Elliot I can't stand- thanks Nantmor: off to read 'Crow' now... back in a few minutes.

 

[vernon]

From distant schooldays
He is not to my liking
You are not alone

A kindred spirit.
Some sharpened sticks aimed eyewards
Stopped me reading Crow

 

[rich p]

Never read a line
That make me a Philistine?
At least those lines rhyme

 

[GrumpyGregry]

When heard aloud from
him whose words they were at first?
Joy abides within.

 

[Cubist]

His poetry is
Written from the heart yes, but
Just not to my taste

 

[Cubist]

Seriously though
He was a West Yorkshireman.
What did you expect?

 

[vernon]

Never read a line
That make me a Philistine?
At least those lines rhyme

A Philistine? Nay!
Your time's not been led astray.
Ted's a popinjay.

 

[vernon]

Seriously though
He is a West Yorkshireman.
So what you expect?

A Yorkshire man eh?
Free with his advice and thoughts
Yet tight with money

 

[Cubist]

Deep pockets short arms
Not afraid to speak his mind
A pain in the pub.

 

[Crackle]

Haiku what's that then?
Hughes's poetry is bluff and clever, provoking
I like it; Thought Fox