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- 1. Adrienne Rich (1929- ) By Carly Powers Block G
- 2. “ A Rich Life.” (Biography) Born on May 16th, 1929 in Baltimore Maryland Her father is a medical professor and mother is a concert pianist Married to Alfred Haskell Conrad ( an economist) but then died in 1970 of suicide. She had changed her emotion and feelings in her poetry after the death. Mother of three sons, ( David in 1955, Paul in 1957, and Jacob in 1959). Graduated in 1951 from Radcliffe College in Cambridge Massachusetts. Came out as a lesbian in 1976.
- 3. Childhood/Influences Her father influenced her by his Victorian language for her interest in writing and he believed that she could achieve the highest of ambitions. Wrote several poems as a child which one of them was called “Sources”. When she was with her husband he influenced her also with her writings about love and beauty. Rich is influenced by the poets Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Wrote her First poetry “ A Change of World” forwarded by W.H. Auden in 1951 .
- 4. Feminism Feminism: gives political, social, and all other rights for woman equal to those of men. Reflects the goals of woman and societal changes in her poetry. Influences woman about harsh depictions of males and a female-male dominated society.
- 5. Diving into the Wreck First having read the book of myths, and loaded the camera, and checked the edge of the knife-blade, I put on the body-armor of black rubber the absurd flippers the grave and awkward mask. I am having to do this not like Cousteau with his assiduous team abroad the sun-flooded schooner but here alone. There is a ladder The ladder is always there hanging innocently close to the side of the schooner. We know what it is for, we who have used it. Otherwise it's a piece of maritime floss some sundry equipment. I go down. Rung after rung and still the oxygen immerses me the blue light the clear atoms of our human air. I go down. My flippers cripple me, I crawl like an insect down the ladder and there is no one to tell me when the ocean will begin. First the air is blue and then it is bluer and then green and then black I am blacking out and yet my mask is powerful it pumps my blood with power the sea is another story the sea is not a question of power I have to learn alone to turn my body without force in the deep element.
- 6. Poem Analysis Diving into struggle or human suffering (disaster) Journeying to the true relationship of man and woman. Or finding true evidence Metaphor- “the wreck” describes Rich's love life and it becomes a very messy relationship.
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