Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
By - Adrienne Rich
About the Poet 
▪ Adrienne Rich (1929) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Her claim to fame were her feminist ideas and her wide
involvement in contemporary women’s movement as a poet and
theorist.
▪ She received a number of awards including 1996 Tanning
Award for Mastery in the Art of Poetry, the Lennon
foundation’s
1999
Lifetime
Achievement
Award,
The
Commonwealth Award in Literature and National Book Award
Overview of the poem
 This is a political poem that explores the position that
women held in the western society.
Very structured poem.
Each verse contains exactly four lines.
Every second line rhymes with the first line.
Thank you
Prepared by – Neeta Moten
PGT English