As a writer, Adrienne Rich found it necessary to acknowledge her anger at both the oppression of women and her own life experience. There is a significant pattern of change in her work, and things she put into her poems that she did not yet know in her conscious, and the things that the poems reveal about the evolution of Adrienn Rich as a writer and as a woman.
In her poem, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" (1951), she describes Aunt Jennifer as a burdened woman who has a lot of ordeals in life. Yet she frees herself from this world through her work, which are the tigers that she has created. These tigers are proud they do not fear the world around. The tigers represent Rich's poetry, because in her poem .
it says "that even after Aunt Jennifer is dead, the tigers that she created will go on." This.
means her poems will go on being read by people, even long after she is dead. In "The Loser" (1958), she uses the persona of a man, and how "A man thinks of the woman he once love: first, after her wedding, and then nearly a decade later." If you read both poems you can see how she views marriage and how she believes a man views marriage. In this poem a man loves a woman, shortly after he falls out of love his wife, then ten years later sees her, with pride in his eyes, as an intelligent person who happens to also be the mother of his children. In the poem "Orion" she is not afraid to use words as "cold" and "egotistical". I see a pattern of boldness in her poetry. Rich slowly finds the courage to be the type of writer who does not care if men get offended by her writing. She starts writing thins from her point of view, then she dares write from how she believes is a man's point of view. Not only does she tell a man what she is thinking but she titles .
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this poem "The Loser," which Rich wrote in 1958. Rich had to have found the courage to write that in a time where women was not so out spoken.
