However, through some of this, and after her death, her tigers that inhabit the panel that she made will continue their bold and proud ways, oblivious to the hurt and turmoil of her life. Aunt Jennifer has an artistic talent. If she used it properly, she will surely become a great artist.
But she has misused her ability because of cowardice. Instead of pleasing herself, she tries to please her dominating husband. She lives a quiet and subdued life. But the tigers she imagined are just opposite to her. They are proud, active, fearless, determined and chivalric. Rich uses innovative forms and the techniques that are supportive to her theme. This poem is a formal and structured in a lyrical pattern.
The poem consists of three stanzas, which contain four lines each. Iambic pentameter is the rhythm made famous by our old pal Shakespeare, who used it all over his plays and poems. In each line of iambic pentameter, we have five "penta-" syllable pairs. Each pair includes an unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed one.
Say the word "allow" out loud and you'll hear what an iamb sounds like: da-DUM. Now, the last two lines of each stanza, which means the last two lines of the poem, are actually in perfect iambic pentameter. The stressed syllables are in bold:. The ti gers in the pa nel that she made Will go on pran cing, proud and un a fraid. What you need to know about "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," though, is that, while the stanzas each end in a couplet of iambic pentameter, the first two lines of stanza are always messy, rhythmically speaking.
It's almost as the poem, in telling this story of an oppressed woman, is not going to fall into a nice, neat, super-conventional rhythm. There's a back and forth with this very conventional metrical pattern. The figure of the man stands as a looming presence in the life of Aunt Jennifer, as it does in the needlework featuring the tigers.
The juxtaposition of the ivory needle a sign of exploitation to the wedding ring in successive lines of the same stanza hints at the restrictive nature of the institution of marriage. The gloomy, closed and claustrophobic domestic space of the second stanza in which the aunt is trapped is contrasted with the open, spacious and natural atmosphere of the forests in the first stanza.
One noticeable aspect of the poem is the silence of Aunt Jennifer. It is always her fingers that do the talking. The panels provide her a space to project her emotions. The speaker becomes important in this poem. One might thus infer that even when Aunt Jennifer dies, her hands will lie lifeless still surrounded ringed by the great troubles ordeals she was overpowered by mastered by. Even in her death, the ring on her finger will remain as a testament of the unhappy marriage in which she was trapped.
Similar to the tapestry of the tigers shaped by her fingers, she has become an object shaped by the pressures of the social forces and the institution of marriage. Adrienne Rich was one of the most vocal feminist voices to be heard in the late 20th century American poetry.
Born in Baltimore Maryland, Rich was exposed to literature at very young age. Marine Biology. Electrical Engineering.
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