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Question #1:

When was Poetry: I by Adrienne Rich written, and what does it mean?

Question #2:

Is this thesis sentence good for a poetry essay?

Through the use of tone along with descriptive words and repetition in her poem, “Diving into the Wreck,” Adrienne Rich shows that maturity is a step by step process because it will allow us to grow and be independent.

Question #3:

Rich's poem is an extended metaphor about a woman's journey to discovering her identity?

Rich's poem is an extended metaphor about a woman's journey to discovering her identity. In your opinion, what might the wreck, the book of myths, or the water imagery symbolize?

This is regarding Adrienne Rich "Diving into the Wreck"
Rich's poem is an extended metaphor about a woman's journey to discovering her identity. In your opinion, what might the wreck, the book of myths, or the water imagery symbolize?

If you are not familiar with the poem, it can be found at
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Thanks for your help

Question #4:

Songs About Popular Girls, It Girls, And Vanity?

Songs Like:
So Rich,So Pretty - Mickey Avalon
Boys Wanna Be Her - Peaches
Accessory - Jordyn Taylor
Big Spender - Adrienne Bailon
Bad Girl - Pussycat Dolls
Don't Cha' Think I'm Hot - Jennifer Tisdale
and Unstoppable - Kat Deluna

i know i already have a few but they're for a project.
do you guys have any more? (:

xoxo.

Question #5:

umm just some advice on high school relationship :) thanks?

Im a freshman in high school, i recently dated this guy over the summer. we dated for around 2 months. it was fun, we went swimming movies, came over. it was getting pretty serious. he treated me really good! but then all of a sudden, he stopped calling me. stopped texting me. stopped telling me that he cared alot for me.. i knew something was wrong but i was sort of confused. he started saying really mean stuff to me., like really REALLY dis respecting me, and that hurt pretty bad. a day before school started he told me he wanted a break. i asked my sister on what i should do about the situation (shes been dating the same guy for four years) she told me to just ignore the situation and act like i wanted to work everything out. i tried but it was soo hard. on the first day of high school he was walking with his ex girlfriend to his next class. and he was sitting with some friends at lunch and she was sitting there too. that friday i tried to look super hot at the football game because i wanted him to notice me (which you know is bad knowing that were stil freaking dating!)
he wouldnt even talk to me.. and so we were watching the game and my friend took his phone and he was texting my friend adrienne. and the messages were talking about them hanging out at her house and how fun it was.. i was so hurt :( especially since it was one of my super good friends! later that night i asked him if we could talk and i just couldnt hold in all the dramatic emotions and i started crying.. he is like really shy so he didnt even say anything! he just looked at me.. so i told him we should just be friends.
after that it hurt pretty bad seeing him and my old friend sitting at lunch together and stuff.. it made me pretty depressed.
about a couple weeks later my sister was talking about this guy that just recently moved here from colorado. one of my sisters boyfriends friends. and since me and my boyfriend broke up and since he was new then we should just go to homecoming together since we both dont have dates. soo i was jus like whatever. i was cool with it i mean we were jus supposed ot go as friends.
so we figured since we were going to homecoming together we should hang out just to like get to know eachother. he's like suuper rich ;) and he has the nicest car ever ! (hes a junior) and we went out to panda express, and ate lunch then drove to jamba and talked about his old school n stuff. then later we went to my sisters boyfriednds house and watched tv while they went upstairs. i mean he was super cute.. but i wasnt sure if i was ready for a new relationship yet. anyways he plays varsity football so he left and i cheered for him during thaaa game, and after the game we hung out but i had to go home pretty early.
the next day it was like around 8:30
and he texted me and asked if i wanted to hang out.. so he pickedf me up and we went out to dinner at red robin and then a movie after. he walks me to the door.. and gives me a kiss
then the next monday at school he brings me a hot chocolate from starbucks..

he says hes gonna find a cute way to ask me to homecoming and idk it makes me get butterfliess. like im really starting to like him!
my ex boyfriend keeps calling me and telling me he loves me and stuff and he wants me back but i dont even care. this new guy makes me soo happy.!
except im not allowed to date juniors.. :( what do i do?

Question #6:

I need a non fiction book about murder but the author has to be on this list?

or you can just give me some books and i can look for the author i need non fiction books about murder
Representative Authors List

Autobiographers and Diarists
Maya Angelou, James Boswell, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Charles Dana, Thomas De Quincey, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin, Lillian Hellman, Helen Keller, Maxine Hong Kingston, T. E. Lawrence, John Henry Newman, Samuel Pepys, Richard Rodriguez, Richard Wright, Malcolm X, Anzia Yezierska
Biographers and History Writers
Walter Jackson Bate, James Boswell, Thomas Carlyle, Winston Churchill, Vine Deloria, Jr., Leon Edel, Richard Ellmann, Shelby Foote, John Hope Franklin, Antonia Fraser, Edward Gibbon, Richard Holmes, Gerda Lerner, Thomas Macaulay, Samuel Eliot Morison, Francis Parkman, Arnold Rampersad, Simon Schama, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Ronald Takaki, George Trevelyan, Barbara Tuchman
Critics
Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldua, Michael Arlen, Matthew Arnold, Kenneth Clark, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Arlene Croce, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., William Hazlitt, bell hooks, Samuel Johnson, Pauline Kael, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter Pater, John Ruskin, George Santayana, George Bernard Shaw, Susan Sontag, Cornel West, Oscar Wilde, Edmund Wilson
Essayists and Fiction Writers
Joseph Addison, James Agee, Margaret Atwood, Francis Bacon, James Baldwin, G. K. Chesterton, Joan Didion, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Paul Fussell, Mavis Gallant, Nadine Gordimer, Edward Hoagland, Zora Neale Hurston, Jamaica Kincaid, Charles Lamb, Norman Mailer, Nancy Mairs, Mary McCarthy, N. Scott Momaday, Michel de Montaigne, V. S. Naipaul, Tillie Olsen, George Orwell, Cynthia Ozick, Ishmael Reed, Adrienne Rich, Mordecai Richler, Sharman Apt Russell, Scott Russell Sanders, Richard Selzer, Richard Steele, Shelby Steele, Henry David Thoreau, John Updike, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, E. B. White, Terry Tempest Williams, Virginia Woolf
Journalists
Roger Angell, Maureen Dowd, Elizabeth Drew, Nora Ephron, M. F. K. Fisher, Frances Fitzgerald, Janet Flanner (Genêt), Ellen Goodman, David Halberstam, Andy Logan, John McPhee, H. L. Mencken, Jan Morris, David Remnick, Red Smith, Lincoln Steffens, Paul Theroux, Calvin Trillin, Tom Wolfe
Political Writers
Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, William F. Buckley, Jean de Crèvecoeur, W. E. B. DuBois, Margaret Fuller, John Kenneth Galbraith, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Jefferson, George Kennan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Lewis H. Lapham, John Locke, Niccolò Machiavelli, John Stuart Mill, John Milton, Thomas More, Thomas Paine, Olive Schreiner, Jonathan Swift, Alexis de Tocqueville, Gore Vidal, George Will, Garry Wills, Mary Wollstonecraft
Science and Nature Writers
Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Jacob Bronowski, Rachel Carson, Charles Darwin, Annie Dillard, Gretel Ehrlich, Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Evelyn Fox Keller, Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Margaret Mead, John Muir, David Quammen, Carl Sagan, Lewis Thomas, Jonathan Weiner
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Question #7:

What does That mouth by: Adrienne Rich mean? just general stuff?

just basic ideas, any ideas that anyone has just to help me understand it

Question #8:

Are the poems "Rape" by Adrienne Rich and "The mother" by Gwendolyn brooks similar in any way or are they diff?

please elaborate?

Question #9:

Theme of "i dream i'm the death of orpheus" by adrienne rich?!?

Question #10:

Is there video/photos of Adrienne Rich rejecting the 1974 Natl Book Award with Alice Walker and Audre Lorde?

In 1974, her collection Diving Into the Wreck received the National Book Award for Poetry; Rich, however, refused the award individually, instead joining with two other female poets (Alice Walker and Audre Lorde) to accept it on behalf of all silenced women.

Question #11:

Does anybody know where I can buy a book on Adrienne Rich?

Not an actual collection of her poems, but notes on her poetry?

Like a critical analysis or just general footnotes?

Any help is appreciated, 10 points to best answer!

Question #12:

Need help interpreting poem?

need to reveal literal and metaphorical meanings

Storm Warnings
The glass has been falling all the afternoon,
And knowing better than the instrument
What winds are walking overhead, what zone
Of grey unrest is moving across the land,
I leave the book upon a pillowed chair
And walk from window to closed window, watching
Boughs strain against the sky

And think again, as often when the air
Moves inward toward a silent core of waiting,
How with a single purpose time has traveled
By secret currents of the undiscerned
Into this polar realm. Weather abroad
And weather in the heart alike come on
Regardless of prediction.

Between foreseeing and averting change
Lies all the mastery of elements
Which clocks and weatherglasses cannot alter.
Time in the hand is not control of time,
Nor shattered fragments of an instrument
A proof against the wind; the wind will rise,
We can only close the shutters.

I draw the curtains as the sky goes black
And set a match to candles sheathed in glass
Against the keyhole draught, the insistent whine
Of weather through the unsealed aperture.
This is our sole defense against the season;
These are the things we have learned to do
Who live in troubled regions.

-Adrienne Rich

Question #13:

sample answer ... adrienne rich poem????? HELP PLEASE!!!!?

hey
i have to answer some questions on an adrienne rich poem, 'living in sin' and i was missing from school cos i was sick when my class did poetry before so i dont know how to do it..can anyone please show me how to answer? ? ? it doesnt have to be an answer and im not expecting anyone to do the work i just need help??????????
the question is how she uses imagery well to show her disillusionment
and
personal response question

Question #14:

Amends -Adrienne Rich -what is this poem about ?!?

what is this poem about ?!

Nights like this: on the cold apple-bough
a white star, then another
exlploading out of the bark:
on the ground, moonlight picking at small stones

as it picks at greater stones as it rises with the surf
laying its cheeck for moments on the sand
as it licks the broken ledge, as it flows up the cliffs,
as it flicks across the tracks

as it unavailing pours into gash
of the sand-and-gravel quarry
as it leans across the hangared fuselage
of the crop dusting plane

as it soaks through cracks into trailers
tremulous wit sleep
as it dwells upon the eyelids of sleepers
as if to make amends.

can anybody help me.. links to websites? the poem online? and what this means?!

Question #15:

What do you think of this radical feminist celebration of womanhood?

"The whole idea of womanculture is based on the radical feminist celebration of womanhood, especially woman's ability to gestate new life, which many radical feminists see as woman's ultimate source of power. The radical feminist Adrienne Rich speaks of a 'female consciousness' as innately linked to the female body. She writes, "I have come to believe that female biology - the diffuse, intense sensuality radiating out from clitoris, breasts, uterus, vagina; the lunar cycles of menstruation; the gestation and fruition of life which can take place in the female body - has far more radical implications than we have come to appreciate"."

"Radical feminists relish their amazing bodies, their miraculous ability to grow human beings of either sex from their own flesh, to bleed in rhythm with the phases of the moon, to sustain the life of an infant with their own breastmilk."

:-)
This is in response to this question, suggesting feminists should celebrate womahood more...

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wendy g - you hit the nail on the head. Both radical feminists and many anti-feminists agree on many things - such as essentialism, or biological reductionism. Or the importance of power and money (rather than men) in women's oppression (Marxist feminism). They just don't agree with the solutions (separatism / communism) and who can blame them?! :-)

Question #16:

i really dont know much about poems? can you tell if there's a rhythm in this one?

"Song"
Adrienne Rich

You're wondering if I'm lonely:
OK then, yes, I'm lonely
as a plane rides lonely and level
on its radio beam, aiming
across the Rockies
for the blue-strung aisles
of an airfield on the ocean.

You want to ask, am I lonely?
Well, of course, lonely
as a woman driving across country
day after day, leaving behind
mile after mile
little towns she might have stopped
and lived and died in, lonely

If I'm lonely
it must be the loneliness
of waking first, of breathing
dawn's first cold breath on the city
of being the one awake
in a house wrapped in sleep

If I'm lonely
it's with the rowboat ice-fast on the shore
in the last red light of the year
that knows what it is, that knows it's neither
ice nor mud nor winter light
but wood, with a gift for burning.
how can you tell?

Question #17:

Interpretation or analysis of an Adrienne Rich poem.. your ideas?

Adrienne Rich - Miracle Ice Cream

Miracle's truck comes down the little avenue,
Scott Joplin ragtime strewn behind it like pearls,
and, yes, you can feel happy
with one piece of your heart.

Take what's still given: in a room's rich shadow
a woman's breasts swinging lightly as she bends.
Early now the pearl of dusk dissolves.
Late, you sit weighing the evening news,
fast-food miracles, ghostly revolutions,
the rest of your heart.

What do you think its about? I am having troubles with the second half.. im totally lost and itd be awesome if you could help me out :)

Question #18:

Need Help with Poetry?

5 Paragraph Essay Help!

What is the author trying to say?
Why did the author write this?
What is it's purpose?
Why does Adrienne Rich (author) uses sarcasm in this poem?

Ghost of a Chance

You see a man
trying to think.

You want to say
to everything:
Keep off! Give him room!
But you only watch,
terrified
the old consolations
will get him at last
like a fish
half-dead from flopping
and almost crawling
across the shingle
almost breathing
the raw, agonizing
air
till a wave
pulls it back blind into the triumphant
sea.

Question #19:

From one college student to another help me with this poem.?

Okay so I am usually good at analyzing poems but this one is driving me crazy! Adrienne Rich's Living in Sin. I have a presentation tomorrow morning and I thought I was ready...guess not. So my question is: Is there symbolism, irony and or shift in this poem. If so, what is it? I have some ideas where symbolism are but not all the way sure how to explain it. Oh and what do you think a good theme may be? I was thinking: Being with someone because of loyalty not love will never end in your favor. Any suggestions will help...as long as I don't get those people who say "do your own work" I know I am trying but I am about to be in the Nursing program and really need to pass this class to get there. Thank you in advance.

Question #20:

Help Me with this poem? Please?

Okay I have to analyze it for school and explore the tone and purpose.... It's Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck." Like supposedly, it's not even about diving into a shipwreck. It's about women's rights. I don't possibly see how anything in this poem has anything to do with women's rights? Can anyone help explain this poem to me please?
Thanks!!

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