Question

Summary of poem snowdrop by Ted Hughes
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Answer 1

Answer:

Rather than giving us an idyllic or sentimental poem about the fragile or delicate beauty of the snowdrop, Hughes describes the flower in terms that recall the predatory weasel and crow, with the snowdrop's 'pale head heavy as metal' (that last word so near, and yet so far, from 'petal') picking up on the weasel

Answer 2

Answer:

Snowdrops by Ted Hughes is a poem that uses juxtaposition and uncertainty to express the commotion that occurs at the end of life. What begins as a tale of a “shrunk” world and a “mouse” in peril becomes the story of a woman at the “ends” of life.