ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF FEMALE VOICE IN ADRIENNE RICH
ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF FEMALE VOICE IN ADRIENNE RICH

Summary/Abstract: Always renewing and transforming itself, Rich’s poetry is an incarnation of human artistry reflecting human growth and change. Following a chronological vein, one cannot help but notice that Rich starts her literary mission as a conservative formalist following masculine aesthetics in A Change of World. However, gradually in Diving into the Wreck Rich turns to an overt radical feminist protest against the dominating patriarchal system which excludes women from the book of myth. Finally in A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far Rich lets go of the male and turns to genuine female aesthetics creating a purely female myth. The present research, focusing on these stages of Rich’s poetic journey from A Change of World through Diving into the Wreck and finally to A Wild Patience, aims at analyzing Rich’s poetic development in terms of Showalter and Cixous’s feminist analyses.

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