Class 12 - English - Aunt Jennifer's Tiger (Q and A)

Aunt Jennifer's Tiger




-By Adrienne Rich





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Introduction



The poem portrays an image of a wife dismayed with her married life.
Aunt Jennifer is an abused wife unable to escape her husband's brutality.
The poem focuses on Aunt Jennifer's dreams and the harsh world she calls her reality.
She escapes her harsh world through her stitching and needlepoint, and the tigers that