Aunt Jennifers Tigers

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers, by Adrienne Rich is a poetic depiction of a woman’s struggle against her dominating husband. Rich vividly manages to convey an upsetting, heartfelt story within her text, while still maintaining beautiful, thought provoking use of our language. This paper is an attempt to display my experience, interpretation, and evaluation of different pieces of her poetic masterpiece. Since the outlines for this assignment were relatively vague, I am only covering my favorite sections of the poem, as they are where my strongest feelings arose.
When my eyes first ventured to page 405 in our Literature book, I had no idea what I was about to experience. I began reading what was to become one of my favorite poems, Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers. Honestly, I am not an avid reader or fan of poetry, but there was something about Rich’s poem that made it stand out from the others that I have read in the past. I did not have a clue what the poem was trying to convey t...