Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck” sends one into a deep cultural descent. We look a one ones exploration into the rift in society between sexes‚ and the journey to rewrite that. The three parts that symbolize this are: the book of myths‚ the camera and the knife‚ the diver’s relationship with the wreck and the cargo found below. The journey starts on a boat; the diver is alone and there not by choice but the need. The dive feels an obligation to free women from these myths‚ to “…heal the
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with a carefully regulated meter and rhyming couplets. Only later did Rich recognize how formalism functioned as she writes‚ "asbestos gloves‚" enabling her to grasp potentially dangerous materials without putting herself at risk‚ as in this poem. The formalism of "Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers" hides the more disturbing aspects of the poem and subordinates the theme of Aunt Jennifer’s "ordeals" in marriage to the more "poetic" theme of the transcendence of art. The first verse of the poem describes the
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of action. I wrote Women and Honor in an effort to make myself more honest‚ and to understand the terrible negative power of the lie in relationships between women. Since it was published‚ other women have spoken and written of things I did not include: Michelle Cliff’s "Notes on Speechlessness" in Sinister Wisdom no. 5 led Catherine Nicolson (in the same issue) to write of the power of "deafness"‚ the frustration of our speech by those who do not want to hear what we have to say. Nelle Morton has
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In Adrienne Rich’s essay‚ Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying‚ she discusses what could happen when people lie and how lying in all its different forms chips away at people’s basic morals and humanity. Rich explains that lying comes in different forms such as concealing parts of our identity or changing our physical appearance in order to fit society’s standards. Even little white lies or lies told to spare others’ pain can cause a huge effect on people’s lives. Rich focuses on the idea of women
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roadblocks and stereotypical attitudes against them. In Adrienne Rich’s essay‚ “Claiming an Education”‚ she discusses issues that women and minorities face while trying to claim an education‚ along with things someone should do while trying to obtain an education. I feel that it is important that people are aware of the difficulty‚ along with how to overcome it and so I would like to help to provide awareness just as Rich did. Rich speaks a small reality about the difficulty of trying to
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Power is so ingrained into our society it’s almost second nature to rely on it. We use power to further ourselves by using the connections we form. Not everyone posses power‚ but they do try to display it on those who have even less than they do. The abundance or the insufficiency of power has been the main problem with the world since the beginning of time. Power imbalances the norms of the human race‚ it tips the odds in the favor of the endowed; in the process taking it away from those who aren’t
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Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American Poet and feminist born May 16‚ 1929 died March 27th 2012‚ was born in Baltimore‚ Maryland and the oldest of two sisters from a middle class family‚ Rich was educated by her parents until she entered public school in the fourth grade. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Radcliffe College in 1951‚ the same year her first book of poems‚ A Change of World‚ appeared. That volume‚ chosen by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award‚ and her next‚ The Diamond
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population. One of those influential women‚ author Adrienne Rich‚ published an essay that talks about how women are treated differently. In the essay‚ “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as a Re-vision”‚ Rich argues that a stereotypical and prejudiced male society represses women. She demonstrates these views through the use of literary history‚ her personal experience towards women’s discrimination‚ and the potential women have to empower themselves. Rich believes that women endured the unfairness and inequality
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Although the United States is established on the idea of equality‚ women continue to be oppressed and face inequality. In Adrienne Rich’s commencement speech‚ “What Does a Woman Need to Know”‚ she talks about what women should understand‚ in order to prosper in the “real world.” The same perception occurs in an excerpt of Ariel Levy’s book “ Female Chauvinist Pigs”; Levy grabs your attention about how women have learned to adapt to male qualities in order to succeed in their prestige. Both authors
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Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich‚ in my opinion‚ is written about the journey of a woman going deep inside her soul to find out her true identity and her role in life. With numerous multi meaning metaphors‚ the poem could be interpreted in various ways; however I believe Rich was experiencing herself changing through this challenging adventure. The depth of vivid metaphors gives credit to Rich ’s message in this poem‚ through such symbols like "the wreck"‚ "the book of myths"‚ "camera" and
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