Poetry for Students, Volume 29

Diving into the Wreck ‘‘Diving into the Wreck,’’ by the American poet Adrienne Rich, was first published as the title poem in he ...

was a pianist and composer. Rich attended Rad- cliffe College, graduating in 1951 with an AB (cum laude). That same year she pub ...

puts on her rubber diving outfit, including mask and flippers. Then she comments that unlike Jac- ques Cousteau, the famous twen ...

uncomfortable clothing, complete with mask, rubber diving suit, and flippers, and get used to exploring unfamiliar regions. Diff ...

Style Free Verse The poem is written in free verse, which does not conform to traditional patterns of meter and rhyme. It became ...

Women (NOW). The goals of NOW included the passing of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, guarantees of equal employ ...

members in 1966 to 48,000 in 1974 (as cited in Judith Papachristou’sWomen Together: A His- tory of the Women’s Movement in the U ...

that the reader is ‘‘given no explanation for why the wreck occurred. Nor is there any account of the swimmer’s return, the use ...

confirmed by the fact that when the diver arrives at the scene he/she indeed discovers the precious metals that remain. It is as ...

young woman, a wife and mother raising three sons? Times have changed greatly since those decades, and young Americans today liv ...

impoverished image of women appear on the screen night after night. This is the all-pervasive myth, or at least one aspect of it ...

in the Nineteenth Century with a certain femi- ninity, the feminization of literature, what Nathaniel Hawthorne called ‘‘that ho ...

deplores the ‘‘victimology’’ of my ideas, which he says have seduced younger women poets. When I read that, I was sort of astoun ...

Q: What do you make of the current attacks on feminism, which seem to be on two tracks right now: that it is a cult of victimiza ...

Q: You write that at one point you embraced that view but now in a sense you are rejecting it. How did you change your mind? Ric ...

pushing ourselves out there further, maybe tak- ing some risk that we never believed we would take before—sometimes a poem will ...

happen, however locally and on however limited a scale—there is an energy there. We’re in this for the long haul. That just cann ...

From the Rising of the Sun Czeslaw Milosz’s poem bearing the Polish title ‘‘Gdzie wschodzi słon ́ce i kedy zapada,’’ later trans ...

reminiscences of the neighborhoods he recalls from his childhood there. A survivor of both World Wars I and II, Milosz is one of ...

Janina, died. He publishedCollected Poems, 1931–1987in 1988, giving American critics and audiences the most comprehensive select ...