Physical Artifacts In Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" And Seamus Heaney's "The Harvest Bow"
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Physical Artifacts in Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" and Seamus
In the poems "The Harvest Bow" and "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" , the
physical artifacts represented in each poem is symbolic of each characters
ideal world. The poets do not confine themselves with the restrictions
imposed by p ....
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.... of a picture or ornamental love-knot,
the poet is able to limit the multitudinous meanings found by the reader,
allowing the poet to further implicate his or her beliefs and situations.
Thus, the use of physical artifacts provides a freedom to express that
which the characters in each poem lacks in their lives. Though unable to
grasp the images that they create, each character in the poems gains a
sense of self awareness. These utopian moments expressed by the creations
are frozen, images ....
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