Analysis Of What He Thought By Heather Mcalugh

Heather McHugh was born in San Diego, California on August 20, 1948. McHugh was raised in Gloucester Point, Virginia, by her two Canadian parents, Eileen Francesca and John Laurence, a marine biologist, he worked on the York River directing the laboratory. Heather McHugh had an early teaching on the emphasis on grammar at a young age by nuns at parochial school. At the age of five, Heather was writing poetry and at age twelve was an excellent eavesdropper. Heather McHugh attended Yorktown High School in Virginia before moving on to Harvard at the age of 17, where she attended a seminar with Robert Lowell and had her first poem published in The New Yorker. In 1970, after receiving her Bachelor's Degree from Harvard, Heather McHugh moved onto

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The use of narrative, uncut by verbal irony, is itself a departure for her. As Ladin writes, “the self-consciousness that fractures most of McHugh’s poems into over-freighted phrases forestalls any sense of narrative, bleeding or otherwise” (10). In “What He Thought,” McHugh’s mania for logopoeia is restrained as the poet gets out of the way and lets the resolution powerfully unfold.”(Tom