Revision:A form of Evolution

The first poem I want to look at by Rich is ?Aunt Jennifer?s Tigers? (1951). According to Rich, this is a poem where she intentionally uses language and a formal style to detach herself. Rich says that she distances herself by using a fictious character of another generation. She wrote in the conventional way of that time because she feared the response of the males in and outside her life; at the same time she speaks of Aunt Jennifer as a woman who conforms to society and thus to a man. ?...I?m startled because beneath the conscious craft are glimpses of the split I even then experienced between the girl who wrote poems, who defined herself in writing poems, and the girl who was to define herself by her relationships

To revise is to evolve, and evolution is transformation.

?Planetarium?, the third poem, was written around 1968. Rich comes face-to-face with herself. According to Rich, she and the narrator of the poem become one (p. 613). In the poem, Rich admits that she struggles with what society says and what actions she will take.

into images for the relief of the body

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