While Adrienne Rich, an obviously gifted and passionate writer, raises a number of compellingly valid and accurate points concerning the plight of the feminist writer and the injustices suffered at the hands of a male-dominated society, I believe she overshoots her mark. ...
"This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me-- The simple News that Nature told-- With tender Majesty/ Her Message is committed To Hands I cannot see " For love of Her "Sweet "countrymen " Judge tenderly "of Me- (Dickinson 2503, ln 1-8). ... In critic's hands beware thou dost not come, And take thy way where yet thou art not known; If for thy father asked, say thou hadst none; And for thy mother, she alas is poor, Which caused her thus to send thee out of door- (271, ln 19-24). ... Stanza five of the same poem continues her argument of ma...
