Comments on: Second Annual Blogger’s (Silent) Poetry Reading for the Feast of St. Brigid

By: mrspao

mrspao — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 04:39:55 +0000

Great poem. I read the Birthday Letters quite a while ago and I really like Ted Hughes. Sadly, I missed St Brigid’s this year but I’ll definitely join in next year!

By: Katrina

Katrina — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:22:40 +0000

How . . . black. That is, it has a dark tone to it–for some reason (smile). I like the thought: “Black also the soul, the huge stammer / Of the cry that, swelling, could not / Pronounce its sun.” Many of us have felt that yearning toward the light and the inability to express the dark emptiness inside, to expose it to the light and see it transformed into something beautiful. Ironically, this is the very obstacle that Hughes has overcome!

By: Janet

Janet — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:41:16 +0000

I love it and I’m ashamed I’ve not read any Ted Hughes poetry till now. Will remedy that!

By: sydney

sydney — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 04:45:53 +0000

Good poem! Obviously about black kitties. That reminds me, I was going to post a poem and forget.

By: obsidiankitten

obsidiankitten — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:10:29 +0000

wow–what a fantastic poem.