Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer Tigers" is a poem that concerns itself mainly with a woman struggling to accept the indignities of her daily life while being insatiably focused on attaining some sense of immortality once that life ends. Aunt Jennifer must find a way to deal with her unhappy and submissive station in life, and she does so by sewing exciting and memorable works of art. Sewing is her escape and in this case she's escaping to a jungle where wild animals rule the land and
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Comparison and Contrast of “Girl” and “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” Over a lifetime a person is forced to make many decisions. The way a person lives their life is that individual’s decision. Often times, one choice is better than another, yet society doesn’t always support what is best. In the poem “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by Adrienne Rich, and the short story "Girl" written by Jamaica Kincaid, illustrates the ways women reacts to a society dominated by men, and how their lives are molded by different
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2015 Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers The poem was written in 1951 by Adrienne Rich. "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" theme paint a portrait of a married woman trapped within a timid and suppressed life. We are introduced to the sympathetic character of the poem, Aunt Jennifer. Instead of describing her, however, the author chooses to convey Aunt Jennifer's art, and the ownership of Tigers tied to her craft. The tigers are vivaciously portrayed. _______________________________________ Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance
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The poem represents the central character Aunt Jennifer as a timid and passive woman who is being suffocated by her marriage she is stuck in. While the poem also goes on to talk about “Find even the ivory needle hard to pull/The massive weight of Uncle's wedding band” (Nelson line 6-7) the idea of male dominance upon her life and all of her Uncle’s ideals being presses against her, especially in the time this was wrote during. The weight of the band is the idea of promise to marry a man and stay
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show how Rich’s poetry speaks to me in aforementioned manner are LIVING IN SIN, DIVING INTO THE WRECK, AUNT JENNIFER’S TIGERS, THE UNCLE SPEAKS IN THE DRAWING ROOM, THE ROOFWALKER and OUR WHOLE LIFE. As I read through her poetry I noticed Rich’s poetry features unusual images which seems not to serve a purpose, but which are heavily focused on, such as a coffee-pot boiling over, or several tigers prancing. These images served two purposes: they caught my eye due to their apparent irrelevance, and
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