“Diving into the Wreck” by Adrienne Rich and Feminism
This paper intends to examine the relationship between “Diving into the Wreck” by Adrienne Rich and Feminism. She as an author has had much influence in feminist writers and females in general by opening doors for them with her work. Feminism is not just a random word, according to Merriam-Webster dictionary the definitions are: 1) - the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities and 2) - organized activity in support of women 's rights and interests. Why have woman had the need to fight for their rights or equality? The battle of Woman has being non-stop, with discipline and their movement more have pass from victims to being survivors, creating in the way, better …show more content…
She manage to give the poem a voice of its own, in a way is as if the voice of the dissatisfactory unheard (Woman) and the ones that have been intentionally disregard by society were expressing themselves in the words of her work. The fact that this poem received the National Book Award and Adrienne Rich rejected it, but accepted it on behalf of women speaks many volumes. She accepted it by saying “To the struggle for self-determination of all women.” In the poem she uses a lot of symbolism and there’s a lot of reading in between the lines to uncover their true meaning. For example, she says “There is a ladder, the ladder is always there hanging innocently- We know what is for, we who have used it.” (Paragraph 2, Rich) In other words, she has done what she could to use the ladder and climb out of the place society (man) have been placing woman, she has struggle with it she knows how it works and how to better climb it. The ladder is a representation of how difficult something can be as simple as it might looked. Another female figure who was willing to use the ladder was Susan B. Anthony when she fought for woman’s rights to vote, even thought that got her arrested she still took the risk and in the long run actually manage to accomplish her goals. Like a wise woman once said: “If you’re willing to pay a price for it, you can do anything
This paper intends to examine the relationship between “Diving into the Wreck” by Adrienne Rich and Feminism. She as an author has had much influence in feminist writers and females in general by opening doors for them with her work. Feminism is not just a random word, according to Merriam-Webster dictionary the definitions are: 1) - the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities and 2) - organized activity in support of women 's rights and interests. Why have woman had the need to fight for their rights or equality? The battle of Woman has being non-stop, with discipline and their movement more have pass from victims to being survivors, creating in the way, better …show more content…
She manage to give the poem a voice of its own, in a way is as if the voice of the dissatisfactory unheard (Woman) and the ones that have been intentionally disregard by society were expressing themselves in the words of her work. The fact that this poem received the National Book Award and Adrienne Rich rejected it, but accepted it on behalf of women speaks many volumes. She accepted it by saying “To the struggle for self-determination of all women.” In the poem she uses a lot of symbolism and there’s a lot of reading in between the lines to uncover their true meaning. For example, she says “There is a ladder, the ladder is always there hanging innocently- We know what is for, we who have used it.” (Paragraph 2, Rich) In other words, she has done what she could to use the ladder and climb out of the place society (man) have been placing woman, she has struggle with it she knows how it works and how to better climb it. The ladder is a representation of how difficult something can be as simple as it might looked. Another female figure who was willing to use the ladder was Susan B. Anthony when she fought for woman’s rights to vote, even thought that got her arrested she still took the risk and in the long run actually manage to accomplish her goals. Like a wise woman once said: “If you’re willing to pay a price for it, you can do anything