Adrienne Richs' "Diving Into the Wreck" illustrates the feeling of sensitiveness towards a tragedy, assuming it is a ship wreck, and how that tragedy has the capability to scar an individual. ... Rich accomplishes in portraying the sensitivity a human being can hold when going back to a past struggle. ... By the end of the poem, Rich brings up a lamp. ... Rich proves how an individual can be scarred by a disaster and its remaining debris through the visuals the narrator creates. Adrienne Rich proves the sensitiveness and scarring an individual will hold from experiencing a tra...

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Aunt Jennifer's Tigers ` The mid twentieth century American poet Adrienne Rich was a product of a conservative Southern family. ... Adrienne Rich uses a number of similes and symbols in the poem to convey her theme. ... However, Adrienne Rich seems to distance herself from the image of Aunt Jennifer by placing Aunt Jennifer in a separate generation from herself. ... In terms of the meter, structure, and rhyme of the poem, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Adrienne Rich utilizes quatrains, consisting of couplets, for a total of six sentences in twelve lines. ... Adrienne Rich's...

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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. ...

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British lexicographer, Henry Watson Fowler once said, "Any definition of irony - though hundreds might be given, and very few of them would be accepted - must include this: that the surface meaning and the underlying meaning of what is said are not the same". Irony can be quite a complex concept to...

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Also there is great guilt that comes from experiencing this lifestyle as described by Adrienne Rich is Compulsory Heterosexuality, heterosexuality is seen as the " 'natural' emotional and sensual inclination" whereas homosexuality is seen as "deviant, as pathological, or as emotionally and sensually deprived" (652). ...

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"Loud and bustling," is an accurate way to begin my story about my 2001 trip to Singapore. I remember wading through crowds of people, seemingly from all over the world, as I was tried to keep up with my parents as we walked through the city. When I got lost, a friendly nudge from a shopkeeper helpe...

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