h could give as good as she got. When she first met Hughes her enormous expectations of him may have contributed to her eventual disappointment and the breakup of their marriage. As she wrote in a letter to her mother:
In the last two months I have fallen terribly in love, which can only lead to great hurt. I met the strongest man in the world, ex-Cambridge, brilliant poet whose work I loved before I met him, a large hulking healthy Adam with a voice like the thunder of God รป a singer, storyteller, lion (Bell 1).
While these may have been true impressions to a degree, Hughes was also abusive to Plath and an adulter
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