Background
Frieda, the daughter of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, was about two when the
poem was written and the family were living in the countryside of Devon in England,
near Dartmoor. At that age, the little girl would have been taking delight in trying out
new words.
It is very important that any explanation of individual words does not close down the
richly suggestive meaning of this poem. It is always true of poetry that each reader
must explore the words herself or himself. Here, it is especially true.
Line 2: In the second stanza, the images might be taken either as physical details in
their own right or as metaphors to describe Frieda’s intense listening.
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