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Ted Hughes: Kore

Poem Title

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Kore

Poetry Book Society, Anthology, 1987/88 (ed. Gillian Clarke).

739

Relationship to Classical text Apostrophizes a kore (archaic sculpted figure of young woman) 'the moonlit grave mounds/of your breasts' and fantasises about the young warriors who died.