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Solved Questions of Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers: 1. What is the poet’s concept of marriage? According to the poet, Marriage is unequal due to male domination and inequality. The woman at the center of the poem, Aunt Jennifer, is an anxious and fearful wife. She lacks inner conviction or certainty, unlike the tigers she portrays. Aunt Jennifer… Continue reading Solved Question of Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers by Adrienne Rich: 2022
About the Poet: One of America’s leading public philosophers, Adrienne Rich, was a poet, essayist, and feminist. She was called one of the most extensively read and powerful poets of the second half of the 20th century. Extensively read and enormously influential, Rich’s career spanned seven decades and has chopped closely to the story of… Continue reading Summary and Meaning of Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers by Adrienne Rich: 2022
Q1: Find, in the first stanza, three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest. A: The three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest are the setting of a bird on trees, the hiding of insects and the sun burying its feet in the shadow of the forest. Q2: What picture do these… Continue reading Solved Short Questions of The Trees by Adrienne Rich: 2022
About the Poet: Adrienne Rich (May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was not only a poet and an essayist but also, a radical American feminist. Born in Baltimore, Adrienne was the eldest among the three sisters in her family. She acquired her college diploma at the Radcliffe College, after which her love for poetry… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of Power by Adrienne Rich: 2022
About Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich was born on May 16, 1929 in Maryland, USA. Rich’s upbringing was dominated by the intellectual ambitions her father had for her. She went to Radcliffe College and focused mainly on writing and poetry. Her first collection of poetry, A Change of World, was published in 1951 and was selected… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of Prospective Immigrants Please Note by Adrienne Rich: 2022
Adrienne Rich- Adrienne Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1929 to a renowned pathologist and professor father and a former concert pianist mother. Having an intellectual background, Rich excelled in academics and later got married to a Harvard economics professor with whom she bore three children. After his demise, Rich moved in with her long-time… Continue reading Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law Summary and Analysis by Adrienne Rich: 2022
Adrienne Rich- Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist. Adrienne Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She was called “one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century”. She was famous for poems which reflected women. Her first collection of poetry, A Change of World, was selected… Continue reading Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers Summary and Analysis by Adrienne Rich: 2022
Adrienne Rich- Adrienne Cecile Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland on May 16, 1929. In 1951, she graduated from Radcliffe College and was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize by W.H. Auden. Having taught in a number of colleges before, in 1970s she started to be an active voice in the women’s liberation… Continue reading Diving into the Wreck Summary and Analysis by Adrienne Rich: 2022
