Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American Poet and feminist born May 16‚ 1929 died March 27th 2012‚ was born in Baltimore‚ Maryland and the oldest of two sisters from a middle class family‚ Rich was educated by her parents until she entered public school in the fourth grade. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Radcliffe College in 1951‚ the same year her first book of poems‚ A Change of World‚ appeared. That volume‚ chosen by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award‚ and her next‚ The Diamond
Premium Poetry Sonnet
Resilience and Compassion: Qualities of Impactful Women Once depicted as the weaker gender‚ women have truly shown that they are of equal value to their male counterpart. In the past‚ women were expected to sew‚ cook‚ and perform other household chores. Society was insistent that women should not interfere with politics‚ should not hold leadership roles nor perform any "manly" activities. However‚ in the past 88 years in which women were finally embraced as being part of "person" in the BNA Act
Premium Gender Woman Gender role
In the Ted Talk‚ “Taking Imagination Seriously”‚ Janet Elchelman discussed a few problems that she has faced‚ and the strategies she used to solve them. Janet was first faced with the issue of her paints not arriving on time‚ then after brainstorming she was faced with another problem of her material being too heavy‚ then Janet reveals another dilemma that she was confronted with; there was not software designed yet to aid her in creating her sculpture. When the paints had not arrived Janet dove
Premium Cognition Psychology Mind
Janet Echelman: Taking Imagination Seriously Darrell Jones PHL 458 Gordon Hurley December 17‚ 2014 Janet Echelman‚ an artist whose career was influenced by imagination‚ begins her monologue in February of 2011 in Long Beach‚ California. She began by stating to take imagination seriously. She gives an introduction to her art life and how it began years ago. She mentions her downfalls and how she applied to seven art schools post college and was denied by every single last one of them
Premium Mind Debut albums Psychology
How do female poets use their voice to contest patriarchal society’s inferior representation of women? Women can be seen as victims in a patriarchal society as they are often forced to conform to the restricting roles of their gender. It is through poetry that female poets are allowed to contest patriarchal society’s inferior representation of women as simply being objects; constructions based on habitual ways of thinking as a result of the cultural world in which members of a society inhabit. Patterns
Premium Gender role Sociology Woman
AUNT JENNIFER’S TIGERS By ADRIENNE RICH SUMMARY OF THE POEM: The poet is a feminist and she addresses the difficulties of a married woman. She spends good amount of time in embroidering panel of tigers prancing across the screen. The tigers are fearless creatures pacing elegantly and majestically. They symbolize the spirit of freedom. Aunt is a victim of male chauvinism (male domination). Aunt Jennifer is so oppressed and terrified that she finds it hard to pull the needle. The “weight of Uncle’s
Premium Marriage Fear Anxiety
"Prospective Immigrants Please Note" Adrienne Rich Either you will go through this door or you will not go through. If you go through there is always the risk of remembering your name. Things look at you doubly and you must look back and let them happen. If you do not go through it is possible to live worthily to maintain your attitudes to hold your position to die bravely but much will blind you‚ much will evade you‚ at what cost who knows? The door itself makes no promises
Premium Judaism Jews Immigration
family and religion interfere? I will focus in this essay on Michel Foucault‚ Adrienne Rich and Catherine Mackinnon who all indicate that sexuality is socially constructed but argue on the source of construction. While Foucault believes that sexuality is historically constructed by genderless power‚ knowledge and discourse; Mackinnon assumes that sexuality constitutes gender and is a social construct of male power; Rich‚ instead‚ claims that there is no innate desire toward the opposite sex but rather
Premium Sociology Gender Homosexuality
The poem I am going to talk about is “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by ADRIENNE RICH. When I saw the title of the poem‚ the first thing we can know is the speaker had an aunt named Jennifer. Also‚ I thought real tigers would be describing in the poem‚ and I wondered how could a woman rear some tigers. But after I saw the first line of the poem‚ I found out the tigers in the poem were not real. In the first stanza‚ we can see the speaker used the word “prance” to describe the move of the tigers‚ it made
Premium Wedding Family Marriage
Adrienne Rich’s poem Living In Sin is a free verse poem about a woman’s fairy tale dream of marriage versus the reality of the sin of not loving each other. The subject of the poem is a woman starting a life of hope and happiness in a perfect relationship only to learn the true reality of the relationship. The speaker of the poem observes the woman’s life as sad and boring using the past tense versus the present‚ and short run on lines that set the hopeless mood of the poem. Imagery and colorful
Premium Past tense Present tense Grammatical tense