Introduction
"Full Moon and Little Frieda" was written for his daughter, who was three at that time, and was learning new things. They were living in the countryside, where everything was quiet and still at night, the nature around them.
Ted Hughes wrote “Full Moon and Little Frieda” to record the moment that his daughter uttered her first words, which is very interesting as she is the daughter of two literary master-minds.
Hughes creates a dramatic atmosphere, and carefully chooses his words to build up tension and bring the poem to climax.
Hughes creates a dramatic atmosphere, and carefully chooses his words to build up tension and bring the poem to climax.
Literary Devices Used
1. Metaphor
2. Simile
3. Personification
4. Alliteration
5. Imagery
2. Simile
3. Personification
4. Alliteration
5. Imagery
• Metaphor:
Line one- ‘a cool small evening shrunk to a dog bark and the clank of a bucket’. Compares the evening to the sound of a dog's bark or clank of a bucket.
Line one- ‘a cool small evening shrunk to a dog bark and the clank of a bucket’. Compares the evening to the sound of a dog's bark or clank of a bucket.
• Simile:
"The moon has stepped back like an artist gazing amazed at a work" is a simile. Hughes uses a simile “like an artist gazing amazed at a work” to depict the surprise. This surprise is because Frieda is so innocent and so pure that she cries out “moon” as if it were a scientific breakthrough. It seems as if the moon is jealous of her purity, because the moon itself connotes purity and is astonished to find a more innocent person,
"The moon has stepped back like an artist gazing amazed at a work" is a simile. Hughes uses a simile “like an artist gazing amazed at a work” to depict the surprise. This surprise is because Frieda is so innocent and so pure that she cries out “moon” as if it were a scientific breakthrough. It seems as if the moon is jealous of her purity, because the moon itself connotes purity and is astonished to find a more innocent person,
Personification:
“To tempt a first star to a tremor” and “Cows are going home” and “The moon has stepped back like an artist gazing amazed at a work
“To tempt a first star to a tremor” and “Cows are going home” and “The moon has stepped back like an artist gazing amazed at a work
• Alliteration:
“warm wreaths”, “boulders, balancing” and “Moon! Moon!”
“warm wreaths”, “boulders, balancing” and “Moon! Moon!”
• Imagery:
“A spider’s web, tense for the dew’s touch”, “A pail lifted, still and brimming” and “The moon has stepped back like an artist gazing amazed at a work pointing back at him amazed.” A very distinct image is projected to the reader in the description of the spider web and the moon gazing amazed.
“A spider’s web, tense for the dew’s touch”, “A pail lifted, still and brimming” and “The moon has stepped back like an artist gazing amazed at a work pointing back at him amazed.” A very distinct image is projected to the reader in the description of the spider web and the moon gazing amazed.
The image of the spider web, “tense for the dews touch” demonstrates the intense stillness around them, and gives the reader the idea that the entire environment is shrunken and tensed in anticipation for something great. The pail of water which is ‘still and brimming’ reinforces the feeling of expectation, visualizing the tense climate.
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