How do Hughes and Hardy both use memory in their poems?
… Hardy “At Castle Boterel” by Hardy “Fullbright Scholars” This poem was based on the summer of 1955. The “Fullbright Scholars” were American students who had won scholarships to come to England and study at various universities. Sylvia Plath was among them. Ted Hughes remembers walking down a road and noticing a picture of the Fullbright Scholars. Strangely enough, he cannot remember what street it is in. He says instead, “Where was it, in the Strand?”. He also asks if she were among them. He wonders which of them he might meet. He doesn’t remember her face. He says that he “scanned particularly the girls”. This is a reference to the fact that Ted Hughes was a ladies man. I think this also refers to everything that happens after this, but most especially Ted’s affair with Assia. I think that Ted feels that by telling her this through the poem, he is explaining to her …
