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have loads of notes on yeats. send them to you if you want. I have notes on the lake isle of innisfree, sailing to byzantium, september 1913, the wild swans, an irish airman,
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omg would you please.....thank uu
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whats your email
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omg could u send them to me 2 pmurphy52 my email is gymnastforeva@hotmail.com
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sending them
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would i b able 2 gt dem iswell please?
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oh sorry i forgot to write it its sugarfairy422@hotmail.com
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Here are some features of Rich's poetry you could talk about:
Unusual and innovative imagery
Living In Sin: In the poem the woman and her husband are not equal; in the poem images are used to show what each member of the relationship faces. The woman is confronted with stressful duties, seen with the images of ‘the sheets’ which need to be pulled back and to ‘let the coffee-pot boil over the stove’. The man is confronted with much less challenging and trivial duties; this is shown with the ‘dozen notes upon the keyboard’ and the relatively unimportant task of rubbing at ‘his beard’. In contrasting what the man and woman face in their relationships through such images, Rich shows the need for equality and thus her as a feminist; while the man’s version of where they live is the image of the ‘studio’, where he can simply puruse his pleasures, in contast for Rich the studio becomes a place of work, where such images as the dusty ‘furniture of love’ need to be taken care of. This must be undone, Rich shows.
Diving into the Wreck: We see more of the same in Diving into the Wreck as Rich presents the image of ‘a book of myths/ in which our names do not appear’. Myth is the center of not just the history and culture of the ancient world, but even our modern world today as works such as the Odyssey and the Iliad still feature heavily in everyday life. By using the image of a book of myths, Rich shows how deeply ingrained this masculine domination is in our world, as myths suggest a resonance to the classical times, many years ago, which here she associates with masculine dominance. With the importance of myth throughout time in mind, Rich shows how strong the need for change and attainment of rights for women is as it is deeply rooted in society and thus needs to be changed forcefully, as it will not change of its own accord, as it has not changed, like myth, for generations.
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers: The image of ‘The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band’ which ‘Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand’ shows again the need for attaining rights for women. In another relationship there is no equality between the masculine and the feminine. The Uncle dominates and controls the woman, emphasized explicitly by the weight of said image which does not allow Aunt Jennifer to move away from the Uncle and live her own life; the image of the weighty wedding band is used to explictly represent the emotional and psychological hold the Uncle has over Aunt Jennifer.
The Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room: Here the world of the poem contains images of prosperity, with whom masculinity is associated. In the drawing room we see‘crystal vase and chandelier’, ‘antique ruby bowl/ Shivered in a thunder-roll’. Masculinity is associated here with the top spectrum of society, while females reside below and are attributed the social role of ‘the mob’. In presenting such contrasting images Rich shows how different the conditions are for the masculine and the feminine, and thus stresses the need for equality. By presenting images, shown above, which are noble but also images associated with the past, Rich shows how antiquated this is and thus the femininst belief that such a situation should not be happening in the world they live in; that it is out of sync and should not occur in her time.
Our Whole Life: Rich here uses images to show how females are oppressed and why rights need to be attained for them; they should not be subject to such images as ‘a knot of lies’ in their life which is constantly ‘eating at itself to get undone’ because of the ‘permissible fibs’ they are constantly told. Such is the constancy of the lying towards them that Rich believes it is best compared to the image of ‘meanings burnt-off like paint/ under the blowtorch’.Variety of theme
Our Whole Life: Rich here encompasses a political theme here, with the poem set against the backdrop of political fighting which included France and Algeria during the time she wrote the poem, which is shown with the image of the man who burned himself alive as a form of political protest, with ‘his whole body a cloud of pain’. However this can still be related to the need for female equality, as such an extreme form of protest may be seen to be included by Rich to show how extreme the need and thus the form of action taken by the feminist movement will have to be to attain female equality, such is the one-sided masculine dominance in the world she lives in, shown through the creation of a political world in the poem where the male is the ‘oppressor’ and the female the colonised, whose ‘dead letters’ have been ‘rendered into the oppressor’s language’, much like the colonzied of a country must learn their conquerers’ language, customs etc.
Living in Sin: The need to confront male power is covered by Rich. The woman in the poem is “jeered by the minor demons” and often wakes to “feel the daylight coming/ like a relentless milkman up the stairs”. There is “dust upon the furniture of love”, which like the male hierarchy, needs to be eradicated.
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers: The theme of life stopping for no one is examined here. No matter who dies, life will not stop and this is evidenced by the mention that even when Aunt Jennifer dies, her ‘tigers in the panel that she made/ Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid’. However this can again be linked to the feminist aspect of Rich’s poetry. The tigers can be seen as members of the uncaring, masculine-dominated world who turns a blind eye to the sufferings of the female. Even though they acknowledge the presence of women (they are Aunt Jennifer’s tigers), in the wider sphere of things they are uncaring, ‘prancing, proud and unafraid’. Aunt Jennifer’s death can be seen as an example of female suffering, and that even when this occurs, the masculine-dominated world is still uncaring.
The Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room: Focused upon here is the attempt of the higher classes to keep in place the hierarchy which has elevated them to their position. The Uncle, spokesperson for his upper class, makes such declarations as that the lower class have ‘follies that subside’ and that ‘these treasures handed down/ From a calmer age passed on/ Are in the keeping of our kind.’ However again there can be a link to feminism and female oppression as ‘the mob’ are associated with the females. That the upper class, the males, see the need to preserve order and prevent the possibility of disorder, shows that they realize they are creating a forum where ‘follies that subside’ will turn to unrest. The males are here shown by Rich to be attempting to not only create a world where they dominate, but where they preserve the possiblity of this being challenged, thus explicitly revealing a need to challenge this and attain rights for the female.Variance of register
Diving Into the Wreck: At the poem’s beginning Rich makes sole use of “I”, then varying midway through the poem to change to “we”, making such remarks as “We are, I am, you are”. In doing so Rich acheives the feeling that all of women are affected by and included in this poem. By including ‘a book of myths/ in which/ our names do not appear’ Rich explictly includes all women in the poem; myth, as said, is centre to the history and culture of our world, but women are not included and thus are of another world, history and culture; they gather in this poem as Rich calls out to them.
Our Whole Life: A combination of Rich and other characters are used with the mention of “Our whole life a translation”. This achieves the same effect as Diving into the Wreck, which includes all women; all have been subject to ‘the permissible fibs’ of the male race. The use of ‘Our’ which has a strong suggestion of togetherness and of collective belonging is cleverly used by Rich here to link herself to other women.
The Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room: There again is mention of ‘I’ but it is not Rich speaking. It is the oppressive uncle who informs us that ‘I have seen the mob of late/ Standing sullen in the square’. This is innovative of Rich because using the other side of her argument she shows how it is not simply her opinion that proves the need to attain rights for the female. Rather the actions and opinions of the class that she believes to be the cause of the problem, show us this. The uncle’s degrading opinion of the ‘mob’ of females with inherent ‘follies’ shows how little respect females receive and thus the need to attain it. Rich’s opinion is not even needed her to achieve this here.
Living in Sin: The poem is told in the third person, recollecting on how an unnamed women is trapped in a marriage and who ‘had thought the studio would keep itself’. By using a third person here Rich presents plausibly an examination of what occurs in their relationship. Rich could not place herself in the poem otherwise she would appear as either a voyeur, hiding in closets to spy on a relationship, or the poem would become fantastical as she could look over the relationship, much like a god can observe all whom he controls. Both would diminish the feminist argument. Hence by allowing a third-person, again anonymous, view of the poem and its happenings we are given a plausible view of the unfairly balanced relationship and thus the relevance of the feminist argument of Rich’s poetry.The seriousness of her poetry
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers: Here Rich achieves seriousness with the sombre mention of death in the poem. Despite the poem encompassing a ‘world of green’ in which the tigers ‘prance’, Rich does not forget that death is included in this world and that there will come a time ‘When Aunt is dead’. In a more sombre note, Rich displays the callousness of the male mistreatment of women by including a biological reference in her poem, that all males come from and because of women. By the mention of the Aunt Jennifer’s tigers ‘that she made’ we get a sense of how cruel males act towards women, as they reject and mistreat a section of society who are inherent to their existence. Like the tigers were made by Aunt Jennifer, all males come from the female womb; this seem to have been forgotten or even ignored by the males; Rich symbolizes this by the continuing ‘proud, uncaring’ prancing of the tigers, even after their creator is dead.
Diving Into the Wreck: The poem takes place in a ‘wreck’ which Rich dives into, and there is a resulting feeling of apprehension in the poem. Rich enters the wreck preparing for battle, or some form of attack, with ‘the edge of the knife-blade’ checked and wearing ‘the body-armor of black rubber’. Throughout the poem this feeling of apprehension progresses, with the ladder which is ‘always there/ hanging innocently’ and the silently circling merman. It is like watching a horror movie and waiting for the monster to attack. Rich aims to achieve this here, as she enters the wreck that is part of the male-dominated world and thus shows how serious the problem is; she presents to us thus the constant fear of females who are constantly fearing attack from the males.
Our Whole Life: Rich achieves seriousness here with the obviously grave image of the man setting himself alight. In doing so he presents us with how serious the situation is for females. The man ironically is representative of females, but this is as said achieved as he is a member of the colonized territory of this poem, like females are colonized according to Rich. Rich makes mention firstly of ‘All those dead letters/ rendered into the oppressor’s language’ and finally remarks of the burning man that ‘there are no words for this// except himself’. The first statement remarks that all of letters, words and literature have been transformed into suitable language for the male-dominated world. The second statement remarks that the female act of burning ones’ self has no words for it, and thus cannot be recognized or comprehended by the male sex. In doing so, we see how serious a situation the females are in; they need to completely alienate themselves from the world they live, like in the act of burning themselves, to achieve equality. Perhaps Rich is making the serious statement here that to achieve equality females need to reject completely the world they live in.For notes on the prescribed poetry section, and for other sections of the course, check out http://ryjolc.weebly.com/whats-coming-up-and-how-to-deal-with-it.html and/ or email us at ryjolc@gmail.com for further information.
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