An original version of this paper was presented at Shudo Junior and Senior High School Bulletin 2011, and was also presented at the symposium with the reformed title at the Chu-Shikoku American Literature Society Winter Conference 2012. I drastically rewrote these original versions, trying to pursue the new perspectives.
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes met dramatically and got married soon after. Passionately exchanging the creative ideas about making poems, they gave incredibly great influences on each other both privately and professionally. This thesis focuses on their same titled poems, “The Rabbit Catcher”, especially from the comparative cultures’ points of view. Both of the different cultural backgrounds can give their poems not only the cultural context but also the colonial context.