Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers About the poet Adrienne Rich 1929 – 2012 Adrienne Cecile Rich is one of the greatest American poets of the second half of the twentieth century. She is also known for her works against women’s oppression. She was an essayist, poet, and feminist. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland on 16th May 1929. Her father influenced her to start writing poetry. She went to Radcliffe College. She published her first work, a collection of poetry, Change of world in 1951 when she was in her first year of college. She has published nineteen volumes of poetry, three collections of essays, and other writings. Through her work, she registers a strong protest against racism and militarism. She was very vocal against the war in Iraq and Vietnam. The poem Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers addresses the constraints and subjugation(gaining control over) of married life a woman experiences. Rich died on March 27, 2012, at the age of 82 in her Santa Cruz, California home, Background of...
