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Richard Hugo, in his essay “Writing off the Subject” (1992), asserts that in poetry writing, it is important that the music of language be allowed to hold a poem together even risking sentimentality. Hugo explains this concept by tackling the inverse of the title, describing vividly how to write around a poem in such a…

The chief beginning of information on Mir’s life is his autobiography Zikr-e-Mir. which covers the period from his childhood to the beginnings of his visit in Lucknow. [ 2 ] However. it is said to hide more than it reveals. [ 3 ] with stuff that is dateless or presented in no chronological sequence. Therefore….

Edgar Allan Poe was an creative person of literature. He was one of the greatest thriller/story Tellers that America has known. He was known as “ a seminal figure in the development in scientific discipline fiction and the detective narrative. His composing came to hold tremendous importance for modern Gallic literature ” ( X, John…

Adrienne Rich, a renowned confessional poet, uses a unique structural style in her poem, Storm Warnings, to reveal both literal and metaphorical meanings. The poem’s structure mirrors the external storm occurring outside and allows the speaker to explore her internal conflict in an organized manner. As the speaker becomes aware of the approaching storm, she…

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers, by Adrienne Rich, is about a woman struggling to deal with her oppressive and constrained lifestyle, and as a way of expressing and freeing herself, she turns to sewing memorable works of art. This is not the poet, Adrienne Riche, first poem that deals with issues women face. She felt dominated by…

Merely in a clip when the force per unit area of the universe amounts to angst and the battle for freedom can a universe progress in it ’ s literary accomplishments. A author, merely like an creative person, builds his creative activities from the temper and scenes of the environing atmosphere. In the first half…

Revision is a type of evolution. For Adrienne Richs life and poems this is true. Three of her poems, Aunt Jennifers Tigers, Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law, and Planetarium were written at different spans of her life. Each poem is reflective of the era of its conception. The poems evolve as Richs education and culture change….

Adrienne Rich was an American poet, essayist, and feminist. She was called one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century, by one of her many admirers Cary Nelson, in the Anthology of Modern American Poetry. She was born into an era in which women were looked…

Stevie Smith’s “Not Waving but Drowning” and Adrienne Rich’s “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” are similar in that both poems’ characters have lived their lives with regret and sorrow. Neither of their lives were lived to the fullest and as death approaches, the question of, “what could have been?” remains forever unanswered. Upon first reading, Stevie Smith’s…

The work of Adrienne Rich is varied but substantial. Her career began with a proper and young female poet writing about the acceptance of certain traditions associated with the divisions of power according to sex and evolved into the radical lesbian feminist fighting for political and social change. Since Rich began writing in the late…