Challenging Patriarchy: Feminist Reading in Select Poems of Adrienne Rich

This paper examines the feminism of Adrienne Rich, focusing on how she subverts patriarchal ideas and themes in a few her poems. Rich's criticism gender roles, power relationships, repressive aspects patriarchy can be found by looking at poetry through feminist lens. Rich effectively promotes equality challenging norms use language, imagery, poetic methods.Rich's poems under study are: ‘‘Tear Gas’’, ‘‘Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff’’, ‘‘Snapshot Daughter – Law’’, ‘‘Diving into Wreck’’ ‘‘Power’’, ‘‘Rape’’.The shape as well prove new style American writing poetry. refuses rule that is put male female because wants express voice dream. fights imposed women represses them for ages. Women are oppressed their rights violated males society.Rich has used defend released from oppression society . She dares write woman. Introduces herself who suffers society. aware limited language transferring woman's voices, so searched an efficient device transfer experience suffering women.