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Adrienne Rich, Living in Sin, The Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room, Aunt…
Adrienne Rich
Living in Sin
Expresses thoughts of women
Explores expections in a relationship
House work was viewed as a woman's job
Contrast between what should be expecting and the reality
Mens work is suggested to be enjoyable and fulfilling
Her male partener feels no need to help clean the mess he helped to make
Lack of balance between the sexes
It echoes storm warnings with powerlessness and lack of control
The concrete reality of their lives
The Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room
The setting is upper class and inequality
Global issues
Concerned about the precious ornaments
Male/ class domination
Gender issues
Concerned about mining power and wealth
Aunt Jennifers Tiger
Uses Aunt Jennifer to show inbalence of power
Wedding ring shows the weight/ struggle of marraige
The last stanza the language becomes controlling and lack of freedom
Second paragraph shows that the wedding band is an inprisonment and women are married for control
From a Survivor
Irregular stanzas
no full stops
Very little poetic language
Examining her relationship with her husband
Very/strangly simple
Contains a wide range of emotions
sense of regret in writing
Talking about her husband's suicide
Trying to Talk With a Man
Difficult relationships between men and women is the main theme
metaphor for testing the straight of a relationships
Strong contrast in the complexity of human experiences 'Love letters of suicide notes'
Female perspective
Resigned tone rather than anger. shows that the female has given up on the relationship
Communication in a relationship
Violence and war in a relationship
Storm Warnings
About a storm outside
Powerlessness, anxiety and something impending
Related to the idea of human emotion and human change
Conflict