The Rabbit Catcher

The Rabbit Catcher
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“to suggest that Sylvia Plath
was anything but heterosexual,
Ted Hughes wrote to Jacqueline
Rose, would be, in some countries,
“grounds for homicide.”
—Barbara Johnson
Mother Tongues: Sexuality,
Trials, Motherhood, Translation
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Yes, my dears—
Ted “Heathcliff” Hughes
As well as the Estate
Got so very upset

Withering Slights—
Echoing thru the Moors
The moody Mytholmroyd
Male Myth wasn’t ready
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Aghast & Agog—
Poor Wuthering Heights
Surely it’s “homicidal”
To do Lit Crit this way?

To interpret Plath’s—
Poetry as Gay not Str8t?
To look critically at
“The Rabbit Catcher”?
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And for Heaven’s sake—
To imply that Sylvia
Was calling Hughes
A “Rabbit Catcher”?

To imply that Heathcliff—
Sylvia’s esteemed husband
Was both a Rabbit Catcher
And a Yorkshire Killer?