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Ted Hughes: Fanaticism

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Fanaticism

Capriccio, Hadley, MA: Gehenna Press, 1990

788-789

Relationship to Classical text Metaphor of Aphrodite's temple, mask and epiphany to express life journey and death (suicide) – ‘You had lifted off your future and laid it lightly / Before the door of Aphrodite's temple' (CP  p.788).