Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

Aunt Jennifer is the creator of a set of needlepoint tigers. And it's perfectly clear from the start that she's immensely proud of them. They're almost like surrogate children to her, a sad fact...

One obvious and concrete way that the poem switches slightly between topics and times is by starting a new stanza. Stanza 1 is being narrated by an unknown narrator. We don't know the narrator's...

Adrienne Rich’s poem “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” is a poem of conflict. The conflict is what takes place within Aunt Jennifer; the desire to break away from the society in which she lives. The poem...

Since Penelope weaved a shroud for her lost Odysseus, sewing and weaving have become symbols of domestic strength, solidarity, and tradition. In "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," Jennifer's tigers on the...

Adrienne Rich’s poem “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” can be perceived as being ironic in a number of different ways, some of those ways even (ironically) conflicting. Among the possible ironies of the...

Initially, a cursory examination of both of these texts seem to yield few similarities. One is a short story about growing up and exchanging the innocence and childlike understanding of the world...

Adrienne Rich's poem, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" is a story of oppression and (we can infer) violence. However, the threat is not from the tigers in the story. As we read, we discover that they are...

Adrienne Rich’s poem “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” is narrated by a relative. Apparently, the narrator has observed the aunt working with her tapestries many times. The poem employs visual imagery that...

The key to the second stanza in the poem "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" is in the third and fourth lines, "The massive weight of Uncle's wedding band Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand." These...

Adrienne Rich wrote this poem in the 1950s when gender roles were quite different from today. Women's roles were more confined to the home and raising the children. For the most part, women were...

The tigers that Aunt Jennifer embroiders "do not fear the men beneath the tree" but, instead, move about, free and empowered, feeling confident and certain of their power and independence. Aunt...

Adrienne Rich’s interesting poem “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” reflects a theme that the poem supports avidly---women’s rights. Women’s issues impact all people not just women. If one has a mother,...

Here's the poem: Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen,Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.They do not fear the men beneath the tree;They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.Aunt...

The imagery of Aunt Jennifer sewing the tigers expresses the view that the society that Adrienne Rich was living in relegated certain genders to specific roles. The stationary Aunt Jennifer plays...

One of the most obvious comparisons you can make between these two excellent texts is through the way that symbolism is used. Both texts are heavily reliant on the use of symbols to convey their...

In "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," Adrienne Rich uses the image of a wedding band, specifically "Uncle's wedding band," in the middle stanza. This image is echoed by the word ringed used in a different...

I am assuming that when you say "third person," you see Aunt Jennifer and Uncle as the first two people in the poem. If so, it follows that the third person is the speaker of the poem, who remains...