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    Scarlet Letter Patriarchy

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    Scarlet Letter Short Essay Adrienne Rich‚ a feminist poet and critic‚ wrote the essay “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision‚” to identify and admonish gender norms in her society. Rich considers that “the argument will go on whether an oppressive economic class system is responsible for the oppressive nature of male/female relations‚ or whether‚ in fact‚ patriarchy... is the original model of oppression on which all others are based.” She comments on the origin of gender roles‚ wondering

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    Living in Sin

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    woman‚ due to the tone of the poem: how she sees the careless husband and notices household disorder. Being in variance with many modern text analysts‚ I must say that the poem ‘Living in Sin’ is completely autobiographic. It has been written by Adrienne Rich during the first months of her own marriage and conveys her own disappointment in what is left after the romantic prelude. To understand the poem one must notice that it is wholly built on the contrasts the author uses from sentence to sentence

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    Her essay focuses on the role of women in literature–poetry to be exact. She states‚ “No male writer has written primarily or even largely for women‚ [...] every woman writer has written for men” (Rich). Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter directly contradicts this. Rich goes on to say that women in literature are almost always beautiful‚ but their main conflict is the loss of beauty‚ youth‚ or life. Hester Prynne is beautiful‚ that fact cannot be refuted. She is described as “tall‚

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    Floyd ENG 131 11 November 2012 Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers This poem portrays a main character‚ Aunt Jennifer‚ as a humble docile woman; smothered by her marriage and the norms she feels she must meet to please society. Adrienne Rich cleverly names the poem “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” because of the importance of the role the tigers play in her life. With a husband who dominates her in all respects‚ she must find her own freedom in her life by knitting in her free time. Aunt Jennifer

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    Claiming an education

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    English 101 29 April 2014 Education: Receiving or Claiming? In Adrienne Rich’s “Claiming an Education” Rich presents the argument of claiming an education. In the United States claiming an education often seems far-fetched. Education is not free and not for everyone‚ or is it? Claiming an education sounds a lot like taking what’s rightfully yours. Do you receive an education for society or does society present it for a student to take? Rich seems to think that education is presented for those willing

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    Texts for Belonging

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    Water Yolngu Boy Poems After Twenty Years by Adrienne Rich Ambrose by Robbit Sykes An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow by Les Murray Australia 1970 by Judith Wright Brothers and Sisters by Judith Wright Class of 1927 by Gwen Harwood Clearances by Seamus Heaney Colour Bar by Oodgeroo Noonuccal Couples by Kate Jennings Drifters by Bruce Dawe Father and Child by Gwen Harwood Kindness by Sylvia Plath Letting Go - Fay Zwicky Mother-Right by Adrienne Rich Refugee Blues by W. H. Auden. Sunburban

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    Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

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    In many cases it is difficult to decipher or interpret what an author is trying to convey in his or her writing. At first glance‚ one might assume that Adrienne Rich’s poem‚ "Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers‚" is about an old feeble woman‚ who is depressed about her husband’s death. So‚ she creates something beautiful to replace him. However‚ in a more in-depth reading you see a woman suppressed by her husband. Aunt Jennifer doesn’t create this beautiful panel with tigers so brave and enduring‚ because

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    Living in Sin

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    Chris Ernissee Lisa Scott English 102 April 4‚ 2013 A Unhappy Life In Adrienne Rich’s poem‚ “Living in Sin” a woman is looking back on her relationship. The title tells me‚ although unconventional‚ in the 1950’s the couple was living together unmarried. The first line “She had thought the studio would keep itself‚” describes how she expected her relationship to be. The woman clearly had an image‚ not a realistic one‚ of the perfect relationship. Many men and women fall into this trap (I certainly

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    Adrienne Rich was an incredibly talented poet with a knack for metaphors. Her particular writing style uses quite a bit of figurative and descriptive language‚ which for a melodramatic teenager is truly the land of milk and honey. Rich creates vivid pictures with her words‚ and you can actually feel the sentiments expressed in her works. From poems about her exploration of her own sexuality and the deep blue sea‚ this Sapphic woman created groundbreaking literature that still makes a splash today

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    A Trilogy of Choices Ernest Hemingway’s‚ story “Hills Like White Elephants‚” Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles‚” and Adrienne Rich’s poem “Living in Sin” are three different types of literature which deal with the relationship between a man and a woman. Although the circumstances and the people are very dissimilar from each other‚ they are alike in that each depicts the story of common everyday people through whom they convey their shared themes. Each of these writers is challenging socially defined

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