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An Aunt’s Hidden Life
Title: An Aunt’s Hidden Life
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1096 | Pages: 4.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
An Aunt’s Hidden Life
The mid twentieth century American poet Adrienne Rich was a product of a conservative Southern family. Rich’s poem, “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” clearly reflects this gender struggle, for it is evident that it is a feminist poem in which the poet criticizes the male-dominated world for frightening and oppressing Aunt Jennifer, leaving her no alternative but to create an alternate world of freedom for herself with her sewing. The main theme of “Aunt Jennifer’…showed first 75 words of 1096 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1096 total…of a wife, beaten by marriage and conquered by the weight of her wedding ring. While “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” is certainly not overtly feminist, it encourages a feminist viewpoint, for although Aunt Jennifer was locked in her world, her tigers weren’t.
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