Poem Title |
Original Publication |
CP Page no |
Remembering Teheran |
New Selected Poems (1957-1994), London: Faber, 1995 |
624-627 |
Relationship to Classical text Atossa (Aeschylus' Persians) in image of the Manageress of the 'Shah's Evin Motel' (CP p. 624). Comic figure ( 'Tragic Persian / Quaked her bosom ' p. 624) but the allusion signals Hughes' desire to look at the history of Persian civilisation ('I knew I was in the wrong century' p.625).