Anne Bradstreet and Adrienne Rich are two of the most important female poets in the American literature, their writing sharing some common features as well. Their poetry seems to be made according to Adrienne Rich's definition of poetry:
             " I believe that poems are made of words and the breathing between them: that is the medium. I believe as well that poetry isn't language in the abstract but language as in: I want to learn your language. You need more than one language to get by in this city. To learn a language is to earn a soul. She is teaching English as a second language." (Rich)1
             As Rich emphasized in her article poetry is not made merely of the strands of words form it, but also of the breathing they leave between them, that is, the rhythm, the music, the life and pulse of the words. Words and language are not abstract objects arranged in a certain pattern, they are entities that have a life of their own.
             Adrienne Rich is a feminist poet, as her poetry profusely demonstrates it. The poems Aunt Jennifer's Tigers and Living in Sin speak about a male oppressed world, and about the conflict between the aesthetic world, the world of poetic imagination and, at the opposite pole, the daily common life in which the female poet is encumbered by her duties- taking care of the husband and children, and of the household.
             In Aunt Jennifer's Tigers we see a woman seated and embroidering tigers on a piece of cloth presumably. The symbolism of the poem is quite obvious- Aunt Jennifer is the prototype of the intellectual but married woman, and the tigers, her creation, belong to the aesthetic and "unafraid" world. The figure of the tiger, possibly suggested by the other "tyger" " burning bright" in the famous poem by William Blake ( "Bright topaz denizens of a world of green") is the symbol of aesthetic beauty and freedom of thought. Moreover, in Blake's poetry the ...