Aunt Jennifer Expalnation
Aunt Jennifer Expalnation
Aunt Jennifer Expalnation
in English Class 12
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Introduction
marriage.
The poem has been divided into three stanzas having four
lines each.
In the first stanza, the poet explains the nature of tigers
The last stanza, compares the life of the artist i.e. Aunt
When we read this poem again and again, we find that the
themselves in art.
Poem
Stanza 1
screen.
In the third line, the poet says that those tigers (carved by
Aunt Jennifer) do not fear the men beneath the tree. Men
exists in the world). This symbol (men under tree) gives the
hunters at all.
her, these tigers are fearless, they do not fear humans and
In this stanza, the poet describes the art i.e. tigers and their
Stanza 2
In this stanza, the poet talks about the artist i.e. Aunt Jennifer
There are probably two reasons for that. Either her husband
The next two lines are very important as they depict the
something psychological.
Aunt Jennifer finds difficult to carve the tigers due to the fear
Stanza 3
According to the poet, when Aunt will die, her terrified hands
will still have the ring of marriage on them. So, though she
will die, the ordeals i.e. bad experiences (of her marriage)
which mastered her (i.e. dominated her life) will remain with
her. However, her art i.e. the tigers in the panel (canvas) will
In other words, though she will die, her tiger will remain
alive, fearless, proud and bold (unlike her). This line gives the
Questions
(a) Name the poem and the poet of these lines.
look like?
example.
Answers:
Adrienne Rich.
confidence.
2. Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through her wool
Questions
through?
there?
Answers:
wool.
(b) She was finding even the ivory needle hard to pull.
(c) The weight of Uncle’s wedding band was lying
Questions
Answers:
(а) Her hands are called terrified because they passed
(b) They are still ringed with those hard and testing
attitudes.
third stanza?
are still fresh in her mind. She had passed through many
the poem?
conventional
words)
screen. They looked sleek. They were bright like yellow topaz.
them in the panel. They have all the traits of the beasts
confidence.
husband?
wool. But she can’t move her fingers freely in the wool.
The experiences
dead?
and troubles in the past. Their effect has left its print on
her hands. The ordeals that crushed her married life had
she is dead?
Jennifer’s Tigers’.
well as captivity.
woes for her. She is still in the grip of those ordeals and
amply highlighted.