Plath is tired of the boredom in her life as she begins with 'I made a fire;being tired' , but she is also tired of men and the letters that she has. She is not doing anything with her life and she is tired of love. Plath personifies the letters as they 'rattle'. This illustrates the irritation of the letters existence to her. Plath then burns the letters and regrets burning them as she tries to take them out with her bare hands but they are told 'do not touch'. Plath kept the letters in the attic, so now that the letters are gone the attic can be a peaceful and 'good place now'. Also she won't be strung along the lies of her husband. The name of her husband's lover was on them letters as she writes 'a name with black edges wilts at my foot'. Even though the letters are burnt it has not resolved anything or has made her feel better 'warm rain greases my hair,extinguishes nothing'. Plath illustrates at the end of her poem that her pain in her life will never go away as it is 'immortal'.
The thought fox shows how Hughes is writing this poem at night as it is midnight. He uses the clock to emphasise his loneliness. Hughes has trouble with expressing his own feelings so instead he writes about a fox he uses the fox to express his confusion of what he is doing with his life. The Fox joins him with his loneliness 'though deeper within darkness is entering the loneliness'. At the then end Hughes has finished writing his poem as he ends with 'the page is printed'.
Both Plath and Hughes are lonely, Plath is burning letters whilst Hughes is writing letters/poems. Hughes poem is more simple than Plath's, as she goes into more detail about her pain with burning these letters that maybe are from him. I am not sure what the conflict between the two are.
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