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Diving Into the Wreck
Title: Diving Into the Wreck
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 558 | Pages: 2.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Diving Into the Wreck
“Diving Into the Wreck”
By Adrienne Rich
As the title poem of Rich’s seventh book of poems, “Diving Into the Wreck” brings together some major themes of her works, the social roles and stigmas associated with men and women and self-exploration and discovery. A strong believer in sexual equality and liberal ideas about women’s role in society, Rich approaches this work as a poetic account of an aquatic explorer searching for the truth …showed first 75 words of 558 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 558 total…where her words expose the diver as an androgyne.
And I am here, the mermaid whose dark hair
streams black, the merman in his armored body
. . .
I am she: I am he
Rich uses this allegorical poem to expose others to different ideas about self-exploration and discovery and the strong social divisions between men and women. It inspires the reader to think about what they truly believe about themselves and the world they live in.
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