Adrienne Rich-Pieces of Me

Pieces of Adrienne Rich: She lived throughout her poems and changed her writing to express herself.

Adrienne Rich is a writer that decides that she doesn't want to be another victim of the stereotype that is put on women (of her time.) In her writing days, the only method used to write was the "man's" method. Though in the beginning of her career she wrote in that style, she changed her method of writing to feminism for her third book. She took an opposite direction to the writing style, and did not do what everyone else did when it comes to writing. Rich was a passionate poem writer. Why? Rich she lived through her poems. Those poems were pieces of Adrienne Rich. She lived throughout her poems and changed her writing to express herself.
"Dividing into the wreck" was her most famous poem. This was more about her life. Those were the days when she tried to live an acceptable life, though she had left her husband. The central idea of this essay is that women shouldn't be afraid to express themselves; that is what she eventually does with her life. She eventually got over her fear, and expressed herself the way that she wanted to.
In "Aunt Jen's Tiger," Adrienne Rich weaves a tapestry and expresses an aggressive woman through the tiger; yet it shows how free she is. In the story, the wedding ring is described as a token of enslavement, taking it off gives her hope. In this poem, women are oppressed, but they don't want to be. This poem portrays Rich's life so much that it is like she is hiding behind the character of "Jennifer." When she says that taking the ring off gives her hope, it shows that she had to end her marriage to really set herself free. The women are oppressed in the poem, so were the women in her time; women were subordinate to men. "The Loser," is a depressing poem. The poem is narrated by a man; the man speaks angrily about marriage. She also views marriage angrily. She regrets ever marrying her ex-husband. This is equivalent to the idea that the narrator might as well have been her. "Re-vision" is seeing things through different eyes, literally changing your vision. Women need to see themselves differently, that is what Rich wanted to show the world when she changed her way of writing. Adrienne Rich was a passive writer. She wrote with flow. Back then poetry was written by men and they made up the rules. Poetry was universal; understood by everyone. Women were not considered universal. However, Adrienne Rich was a great writer, she equalized herself with men. She wrote for a universal audience as men did, using her life as a base for her poems. That is what Rich learned from Friere's Banking Concept of education, which is basically doing what you feel like doing, not just what is taught or learned. Adrienne rich expresses many things about freedom for herself in her poems. She kept writing the way that she wanted to even though; she became disliked because of her poetry. Rich tries to accomplish things through poems such as: change a woman stereotype on how they are subordinate to men. Her style of poem was her own. She not only lived through her poem, but changed her writing to express herself.