Rationale for Love Song by Ted Hughes

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Rationale for ‘Love Song’ by Ted Hughes Painting on canvas Medium: Mixed This painting is based on the poem ‘Love Song’ by Ted Hughes. It is our interpretation of the poem expressed through a painting made my mixed medium. The main idea of the painting is to bring out the gist of the poem and transfer it onto a completely different medium. The painting is divided into four parts, each part signifying a piece of the poem. The first part of the painting portrays lines one to seven. There is a heart with a girl and boy hugging each other, which symbolizes their strong, undying love, their unstoppable desire for one another (inspired by ‘She wanted him complete inside her’). The heart is locked which displays their craving for a forever which is safe and secured (inspired by, ‘Safe and Sure forever and ever’). Moreover, above the heart are lips, which through the white lines show that it is sucking in the mummy and the gadget, which in this case represent the past and the future respectively (inspired by, ‘His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to’). Therefore this displays how both of them were so content with one another that they didn’t want anything to change, and wanted to erase their past and ignore the future through their irrevocable love. The background is shades of blue colour because it evokes a tranquil and relaxed feeling, followed by a scatter of flowers, to create a romantic and cheerful atmosphere. The second part depicts lines eight to eighteen. There is a cube of ice with an hourglass frozen inside, with ‘PAST’ and ‘FUTURE’ written on the edges. This displays how they wanted time to be frozen, so they could stay in the current moment forever. They wanted their past to be forgotten and the future to be ceased (inspired by, ‘He wanted all future to cease’ and ‘her eyes wanted nothing to get away’). Further on, there is a
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