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Ted Huges's Marriage to Silvia Prath was obviously a great obsession. In the poem we witness Hughes’s ‘absolute’ passion, and he sites that he is aware of his ignorance as love has blinded him, and only has eyes for his partner, the rest of the world seems so far away, they literally went missing for three days!
…and the confusion, and the noise of his surroundings had vanished, to find only each others gaze.
I find in this poem an ironic comment on his future studies of Metamorphosis, the re-building of one another’s anatomy becomes a credulous reminder to us all, the importance of appreciation (in a partnership of life,) yet also a aide memoire of our fragility and vulnerability to one other.
Also,
I'm only 22 but I have loved and I swear,
that is just what it feels like!
Brittany Elyse from Australia