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Aunt Jennifer's Tiger

            The poem, "Aunt Jennifer's Tiger", by Adrienne Rich, is a poem about woman who is struggling to accept the indignities of her daily life, while focusing on attaining some sense of immortality once her life ends. Aunt Jennifer must find a way to deal with her unhappy and submissive place in life, and she does so by sewing exciting and memorable works of art. Sewing is her escape and in this case she imagines that she's in a jungle where wild animals rule and never show fear. The tigers Aunt Jennifer creates are beasts demanding respect, even from their predators. This demand for respect is something that Aunt Jennifer is incapable of doing for herself. .
             The structure of the play "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" is built on the concept of give and take, showing a woman's ability to create an everlasting work of art while dealing with the humiliation of living a life that is built on hardship. In three small stanzas of just four lines each, the poem craftily builds toward the welcome conclusion that no matter how much life has to dish out to a person and bring a person down, each of us can still achieve some small measure of respect and immortality if we just have the discipline to do what we know we can do well. I agree with this conclusion; however, I feel as though Aunt Jennifer successfully overcame the load that she was forced to carry and created a small wedge of life everlasting for herself. I also believe that if a person can find out what it is that he does well, he can achieve it and create for himself something that will last long after he or she is gone.
            


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1. aunt jennifers tigers

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers ` The mid twentieth century American poet Adrienne Rich was a product of a conservative Southern family. ... With the use of similes, symbols, meter, structure, rhyme, connotation Rich created her poem, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers. ... The structure of Aunt Jennifer's Tigers consists of the first stanza, which is about the proud tigers, the second stanza, which is about terrified Aunt Jennifer, and the third stanza, which refers first to Aunt Jennifer and then to the tigers. ... Although the tigers are above the men, Aunt Jennifer is pinned down, ...

  • Word Count: 1074
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

2. An Analysis of Aunt Jennifers Tigers

An Analysis of "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" It is difficult to depict a primary poetic technique within this poem. ... Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers", depicts an audacious woman trapped within a timid and suppressed life. ... The tigers in the first stanza symbolize the bold personality that is discretely projected from inside Aunt Jennifer's smothering conventional shell. ... Just as the tigers are a projection of Aunt Jennifer, it seems the men beneath the tree are a projection of Uncle. ... The formal aesthetics of "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" is ver...

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  • Grade Level: High School

3. Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

Essay on "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" by Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" tells us a story about a woman, Aunt Jennifer, and her struggles with marriage and perhaps her role in the society of her time. ... In the first stanza, the use of the word "screen" in the first line of the poem conjures the idea that Aunt Jennifer watches these tigers as if they are on a film in her head. The choice of animals for the needlework and the colorful descriptions of the tigers let us in on Aunt Jennifer's dreams. ... Aunt Jennifer controls these tigers, just as sh...

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  • Grade Level: High School

4. Aunt jennifers tigers

Gender Struggle "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" by Adrienne Rich is a poem on an outside perspective of a woman who is going through a marriage without love and is being held back by her husband. ... In the first stanza Aunt Jennifer is introduced in the third person. ... The poem does not refer to Aunt Jennifer as an individual but rather as women as a whole by placing Aunt Jennifer in a separate generation from herself. Aunt Jennifer is weighted down by her husband. ... In "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" Aunt Jennifer portrayed her wishes of being independent of her husband and society i...

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5. The Use of Irony in Poetry

Adrienne Rich uses a variation of situational irony in her beautifully written poem "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers". ... The first stanza serves to paint an optimistic, colorful picture of the tigers Aunt Jennifer sews as "Bright topaz denizens of a world of green" (2), confident and fearless, "They pace in sleek chivalric certainty" (4). Contrary to the first stanza's tone, Aunt Jennifer's contrasting melancholic life is made apparent in the second stanza. ... The final stanza serves to emphasize the irony between Aunt Jennifer and her tigers, tying tog...

  • Word Count: 1245
  • Approx Pages: 5
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

6. The effect of a sexist society

Similarly "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" uses tigers as a symbol to associate a woman's life in the early 50's. ... Similarly the poem "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" revolves around the character of Aunt Jennifer whose lack of freedom is denoted by the tigers she creates. ... The poem "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," is analyzed to demonstrate the changes in Rich's way of writing. Rich wrote "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" in 1951, while she was a student. ... The poem uses proud tigers as a symbol and then states the fear contained within Aunt Jennifer's heart. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

7. Adrienne Rich

In her poem, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" (1951), she describes Aunt Jennifer as a burdened woman who has a lot of ordeals in life. Yet she frees herself from this world through her work, which are the tigers that she has created. These tigers are proud they do not fear the world around. The tigers represent Rich's poetry, because in her poem it says "that even after Aunt Jennifer is dead, the tigers that she created will go on." ... When I go back to her first poem, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," I can see how in her subconscious she was determined to leave a mark on the world thr...

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  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

8. Revision:A Form Of Evolution

Three of her poems, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers", "Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law", and "Planetarium" were written at different spans of her life. ... The first poem I want to look at by Rich is "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" (1951). ... 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... A passage from the poem illustrates this "They (the tigers) do not fear the men beneath the tree;/ they pace in sleek chivalric certainty" (3-...

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  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

9. Exploring Revision

For instance, Rich talks about when she wrote "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers- (1951). ... An example would be "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers- (1951). ... "Aunt Jennifer's tigers stride across a screen, Bright topaz denizens of a world of green- (632). ...

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  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

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