English Literature - Poetry and Poetic Devices

English Literature
English Literature - Poetry and Poetic Devices

What is the message conveyed in the poem 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers' ?


Options:

  1. Marginalization of women in male-chauvinist society
  2. Filial Piety
  3. Exaltation of women in society
  4. Gender Egalitarianism

Right Answer: Marginalization of women in male-chauvinist society

In Adrienne Rich’s poem, Aunt Jennifer embroiders tigers that prance across a screen, proud, fearless and unafraid of the men beneath the tree. Their freedom stands in deliberate contrast to their maker, whose fingers flutter through the wool and whose hand is weighed down by the massive band of her wedding ring, the emblem of a patriarchal marriage. Even when she is dead her terrified hands will still be ringed by the ordeals she was mastered by. The poem thus protests against the marginalisation of women in a male-dominated society, while art survives its maker.

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