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Genius Annotation

In this early poem, Rich connects Aunt Jennifer’s creation and creativity to a certain freedom and immortality; her tigers are a made thing that required hours of work in a craft, needlepoint, normally associated with women. In contrast, Rich is working in poetry at a time (1951) when there were far fewer women than men in the field. Her creation, this poem, is a lot like needlepoint in that it took hours to create (it is in rhyming iambic pentameter, an elaborate pattern, or “weave”), expresses a kind of freedom, and gives her immortality too. (Rich passed away in 2012.)

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  1. 2.
    Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
  2. 6.
    The Kursaal at Interlaken (Missing Lyrics)
  3. 9.
    A View of the Terrace (Missing Lyrics)
  4. 11.
    Air Without Incense (Missing Lyrics)
  5. 12.
    For the Felling of an Elm in the Harvard Yard (Missing Lyrics)
  6. 14.
    Why Else but to Forestall This Hour (Missing Lyrics)
  7. 15.
    This Beast, This Angel (Missing Lyrics)
  8. 16.
    Eastport to Block Island (Missing Lyrics)
  9. 17.
    At a Deathbed in the Year Two Thousand (Missing Lyrics)
  10. 21.
    Five O’Clock, Beacon Hill (Missing Lyrics)
  11. 22.
    From a Chapter on Literature (Missing Lyrics)
  12. 24.
    Mathilde in Normandy (Missing Lyrics)
  13. 26.
    The Rain of Blood (Missing Lyrics)
  14. 29.
    A Revivalist in Boston (Missing Lyrics)
  15. 30.
    The Returning of the Evening Grosbeaks (Missing Lyrics)
  16. 31.
    The Springboard (Missing Lyrics)
  17. 32.
    A Change of World (Missing Lyrics)
  18. 33.
    Unsounded (Missing Lyrics)
  19. 34.
    Design in Living Colors (Missing Lyrics)
  20. 35.
    Walden 1950 (Missing Lyrics)
  21. 36.
    Sunday Evening (Missing Lyrics)
  22. 37.
    The Innocents (Missing Lyrics)
  23. 38.
    “He Remembereth That We Are Dust” (Missing Lyrics)
  24. 39.
    Life and Letters (Missing Lyrics)
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Release Date
1951
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