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.