Ful Moon And Littl Freda

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In the first stanza Ted Hughes you can see a metaphor when he says “a cool small evening shrunk” He is telling that the sun is going down now that night is about to come. You will also find onomatopoeic sounds such as “dog bark” and “the clank of a bucket”. When he says “and you listening he is referring to Frieda his daughter, Ted Hughes also uses the word “you” to clear that the poem goes to his daughter. “A spider’s web” is a metaphor to say that Frieda is listening stiffly, like a spider web. It’s also a personification because he is giving life to a spider’s web saying that the spider web is his daughter. “To tempt a first star to a tremor” the star could be Frieda. Assonance is very common in the first stanza. In the second stanza Hughes says “Cows are going home in the lane there, looping the hedges with their warm wreaths of breath” telling that it is time to go to sleep because the moon came out and the cows are going to sleep. He is imagining the cow’s respiration. A dark river of blood, many boulders” the river of blood represents the cows and the many boulders are the fat and big cows. “Moon!' you cry suddenly, 'Moon! Moon!” We can clearly see that his daughter is a small kid because she is starting to talk and she could be pointing out at the moon as it comes out. There is a repetition of the word “moon” that links back to the title. The last stanza only contains 3 lines and it is like a narration of the moon, telling the moon’s story. “The moon has stepped back like an artist gazing amazed at a work” I thought that the moon could represent Frieda’s mom but the moon is represented as a male, maybe he is saying that he is the moon because he is an artist, a poet. “That points at him amazed.” She is pointing at the moon, admiring it. She must admire her father, Ted Hughes. Structure: There are one syllable lines affecting the pace of the poem making it

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