"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
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Warning” is written in chronological order to describe an oncoming storm. The speaker of the poem to be aware of the approaching storm and is taking safety precautions to protect themselves. However the storm reveals a much more deeper meaning. Adrienne Rich uses both literal and metaphorical meaning to compare the storm to the emotions of an individual. The poet’s tone presents a gloomy‚ melancholy tone so readers get the general atmosphere of the storm. In the first stanza‚ readers are aware of
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collection of poems‚ is typical of her early work‚ illustrating the modest poetic ambitions for which she was praised by Auden. Technically‚ the work displays flawless craftsmanship‚ with a carefully regulated meter and rhyming couplets. Only later did Rich recognize how formalism functioned as she writes‚ "asbestos gloves‚" enabling her to grasp potentially dangerous materials without putting herself at risk‚ as in this poem. The formalism of "Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers" hides the more disturbing aspects
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minorities or women. These people have to work a lot harder and overcome many roadblocks and stereotypical attitudes against them. In Adrienne Rich’s essay‚ “Claiming an Education”‚ she discusses issues that women and minorities face while trying to claim an education‚ along with things someone should do while trying to obtain an education. I feel that it is important that people are aware of the difficulty‚ along with how to overcome it and so I would like to help to provide awareness just as Rich did.
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“Women and cats will do as they please‚ and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” ― Robert A. Heinlein A woman is a female human. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult‚ with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. However‚ the term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human‚ regardless of age‚ as in phrases such as "Women’s rights". Women are typically capable of giving birth from puberty onwards‚ though older women who have gone
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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
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early 1900s till now‚ women have been discriminated against and have been battling for equal rights in the United States. In 1960s America‚ the feminist movement was growing rapidly‚ bringing out influential women and protesters who were starting to get noticed by the majority of the population. One of those influential women‚ author Adrienne Rich‚ published an essay that talks about how women are treated differently. In the essay‚ “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as a Re-vision”‚ Rich argues that a stereotypical
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of equality‚ women continue to be oppressed and face inequality. In Adrienne Rich’s commencement speech‚ “What Does a Woman Need to Know”‚ she talks about what women should understand‚ in order to prosper in the “real world.” The same perception occurs in an excerpt of Ariel Levy’s book “ Female Chauvinist Pigs”; Levy grabs your attention about how women have learned to adapt to male qualities in order to succeed in their prestige. Both authors show us that in order to liberate women who are oppressed
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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
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In [insert essay name here] Adrienne Rich stresses the importance of women taking advantage of the opportunities of education in America. Since the beginning of time‚ education has been determined by white men who decide what we should and should not be learning about. When we hear about “great issues” it’s what white men decide is important enough for the western world to know about. Most of the time we only hear about issues that relate to us or an ally of the U.S. For instance‚ when the tragedy
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