On “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”

*Adrienne Rich's poetry is standard fare in English and Women's Studies courses across the country; she is a highly valued teacher and activist. Both her poetry and speaking engagements incite action towards finding the relationship between the political and the personal minds of women. Adrienne Rich is writers who focus on feminist poems expressing her anger... In most of her poems she likes to focus on female experience. One of the poems she wrote is “…

…is a poem that makes people appreciate the value their freedom. Rich’s poetry didn’t necessarily change society itself, but changed a lot of people’s, especially women’s views towards the way they live their life and exactly who they are. Women needed to realize to live for themselves. They don’t have to sit around and depend on men. They too can make things happen. An open heart is all they need.