Birthday letters Ted Hughes

life after death:
Ted Hughes Life after Death of the Birthday letters was one of the most powerful of the collection. Hughes describe the events and the emotion he went through with his children. like many loved ones of a suicide victims their life is torched and each one of them try to cope and move on from the horror. he begins with the words " what can i tell you that you do not know of life after death"
then goes on to describe his son cries and tears for his mother as he feeds him in his high chair. he also says how even though he is crying his mouth betrays you as he continue to cry and take the food. then he goes on describing the coms state of his daughter as he dresses her and the presence of her death continue to wound her. and later describes how the wolves mourn for them and visit them night after night..and they sing for two orphans as he states "where wolves singing in the forest for two babes, who have turned in their sleep into orphans besides the corps of their mother" which recalls the night she gassed her self while the children were sleeping and slept while their mothers corps was laying on the kitchen floor.