Parents and Their Children Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Adrienne Rich's "A Woman Mourned by Daughters" are poems that are based on only one parent. ... "Nothing could be enough. / You breathe upon us now through solid assertions / of yourself" (Rich 21-24). ... "You are puffed up in death / like a corpse pulled from the sea; / we groan beneath your weight" (Rich 8-10). ... / Nothing could be enough" (Rich 20-21). ... "Now not a tear begun, / we sit here in your kitchen / You, whom we so often / succeeded in ignoring" (Rich 1-2,6-7). ...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... Rich may have used an outside perspective to further impress upon the reader Aunt Jennifer's inability to speak out for herself. ...

• Word Count: 711
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• Grade Level: High School

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 a time where women could not verbally speak up against the daily tribulations Rich wrote a poem in the mid-nineteenth century standing up alone in what she believed in. ...

• Word Count: 644
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School