Looking back at the poems I wrote before I was twenty-one, Im - TopicsExpress



          

Looking back at the poems I wrote before I was twenty-one, Im startled because beneath the conscious craft are glimpses of the split I even then experienced between the girl who wrote poems, who defined herself in writing poems, and the girl who was to define herself by her relationships with men. Aunt Jennifers Tigers (1951), written while I was a student, looks with deliberate detachment at this split.... Aunt Jennifers tigers stride across a screen, Bright topaz denizens of a world of green. They do not fear the men beneath the tree; They pace in sleek chivalric certainty. Aunt Jennifers fingers fluttering through her wool Find even the ivory needle hard to pull. The massive weight of Uncles wedding band Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifers Band. When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by. The tigers in the panel that she made Will go on striding, proud and unafraid.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:48:44 +0000

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