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Ted Hughes (1930-98): from "You Hated Spain" (1980)

A poem written about his dead wife, Sylvia Plath.—Alice, the Anchovy Schoolmarm

. . . The blood-raw light,
The oiled anchovy, the African
Black edges to everything, frightened you.

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