Commentary on fulbright scholars

He writes this poem like a series of flashbacks, in a rather jumbled manner as if he is setting his thoughts down on paper, trying to make sense of what exactly happened that day.

Straight away from the first line, “Where was it, in the strand?” we know that he is trying to recall a distant memory, and is not trying to act as if it is still fresh in his mind, he is telling us right away that he is having trouble remembering the exact detail. The particular question seems unimportant but it establishes a distance between the two of them and between Hughes and his memories.

He then goes on to say how ‘for some reason’ the pictures of the Fulbright scholars stood out, as if u

I feel that it is as if then he just saw her for her face and now he knows her and is indicating that not many people know her as well as he does.

Hughes remembers disinterestedly surveying her photograph, her grin false 'for the cameras, the judges, the strangers, the frighteners'.

Some topics in this essay:
Sylvia Plath, Hughes Plath, Ted Hughes’, fulbright scholars, trouble remembering, heightened seeing, day straight,