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Edward James Hughes better known as Ted Hughes, was an

English poet and writer of children's books.


He married the American poet Sylvia Plath in 1956 and was
married to her until his death by suicide in 1963, at the age
of 30 years.
Last Letter is a poem that Ted Hughes wrote. In the poem
Ted Hughes describe the last days of his wife Sylvia Plath
before she killed herself
The poem begins with the line "What happened that night?
Your final night" and ends with the moment when Ted
Hughes is informed of the death of his wife.
Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were two of the most famous
poets of the twentieth century. His turbulent relationship
ended in Sylvia 's suicide in 1963 when she was 30 years.
In the poem, the author tells how he came by telephone the
news of Sylvia 's suicide because she opened the gas tap of
the house where she lived with small children of the
marriage
According to the narrative of the poem, Plath wrote Hughes
some kind of suicide note, or a note of suicide, on the
Friday, and by some perverse miracle it arrived too early
she posted it in the morning and he received it in the
afternoon post
According to the poem, is that the worst of all the possible
jealous fantasies that were torturing Sylvia at that time
were fulfilled
the poem says he was the weekend with a girl called Susan
with whom Hughes was having an affair.

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