can someone help with this?

[emsypooh]

im having some trouble analyzing the city by ted hughes. can someone please help me, not so much on the use of language, however more on the references and influence of sylvia plath.

and especially the metaphors used throughout the poem
'Your poems are a dark city centre.
Your novels, your stories, your journals, are suburbs
Of this big city.'

Your poems are a dark city centre.
Your novels, your stories, your journals, are suburbs
Of this big city.
The hotels are lit like office blocks all night
With scholars, priests, pilgrims. It's at night Sometimes I drive through, going slow, simply
Roaming in my own darkness, pondering
What you did. Nearly always
I glimpse you - at some crossing,
Staring upwards, lost, sixty year old.
You want to ask something but you can't.
You stare into every face
Trying to recognize somebody.
They ignore you. Then the light goes red
And they all surge past you.
Then you see me in my car, staring at you.
I see you thinking: ought I to know him?
I see you frown. I see you trying
To remember - or suddenly not to remember.

thank you in advance :)
my literature presentation is wednesday, so please help! :)
xx
i'll do anything in return for the help!

[Pryderi Agni]

Wow, that's a dangerous proposition, there :)

Hmm, well, now that you mention it, this poem is absolutely overflowing with references to Sylvia Plath. Their stormy romance figures prominently in the later half of the poem, while the earlier part seems to be his eulogy to his wife's work, most of which was done in journals and notebooks.

Mostly, it's about the angst and loneliness Hughes feels after his wife committed suicide, and he offers this poem as a sort of posthumous olive branch, saying in effect, "I can't ignore your work anymore, because it's everywhere. I know that sometimes you felt like a stranger with me, but I love you, and I'm lost without you."