Consequently, in Birthday Letters Hughes depicts Plath, like Actaeon, as suffering dismemberment in the collection’s penultimate poem ‘The Dogs Are Eating Your Mother’. In the following passage from ‘Echo and Narcissus’, for example, Hughes likens Echo’s obsession for Narcissus to the hunger of a starving wolf, while maintaining Ovid’s original concluding image of passion as a dangerous conflagration: One day, when she observedNarcissus wandering in the pathless woods,she loved him and she followed him, with softand stealthy tread.-The more she followed himthe hotter did she burn, as when the flameflares upward from the sulphur on the torch. when you don't have to?' Tales from Ovid (Paperback). Unvoiced supplementary clauses hung in the air: '.
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