same happiness and sadness coexist. With this passage, the reader could say that Hughes viewed his wife as bipolar, where happiness and sadness come and go like the wind.The poem flows smoothly, and in the fourth stanza in which Hughes feels compelled to come back to Plaths core problem: her father. In order to beat her obsession with her father, Plath must tackle the problem head-on and face it. Only then will she experience a re-birth of herself. The best line of the poem sits alone, between stanzas: What happens in the heart simply happens (70). There is no logic to feeling things rather than thinking them through. Hughes is saying that despite how unfounded Plaths obsession with her father may be, it is how she feels, and she has no control over it. The fifth stanza refers to Eden radioactive (70). This is Hughess statement on his otherwise perfect existence with his wife, corrupted by the poisonous reign her fathers memory has over her. This poem says that in order for Plath to get on with her life and be happy, she must acknowledge her past and tackle it in order to deal with the present. But Plaths very nature was poisonous. Perhaps it was impossible for her to save herself.In his poem Isis, Hughes tells of a road trip with Plath while she was pregnant. The first stanza of the poem leads the reader to believe that Plaths obsessions with her father and death were a thing of the past: And you had dealt with Death. / You had come to an agreement finally: / He could keep your Daddy and you could have a child (111). But just as the reader presumes that Plaths problems have left her, Hughes interjects Death, lurking, haunting from afar. Death is personified as the third person on their trip, when Hughes writes, Was Death, too, part of our luggage? Did he meet us now and again on the road, / Smiling in a caf, at a gas station? (111). Although Plath may have thought she had beat Death, Hughes knows that hers is a battle not to be won....
