1.Another point that most of us seems to have missed is that the tiger's-which on the one hand symbolize aunt Jennifer’s free spirit as opposed to her body being 'mastered by ordeal', on the other it also show's her dissatisfied sense of freedom. Tiger's are particularly described as moving in 'chivalric certainty' and that has male patriarchal connotations. Her rebellion reflects her repression in that she expresses it, ironically, in the language of the oppressor. Moreover, the 'men under the tree' and tigers prancing in a 'world of green' reek heavily of colonialism- another form of oppression- Buddha as the man under the tree and tigers both are allusions to Imperialism in India. Besides Aunt Jennifer, working with 'ivory needles' also has imperialistic connotations- this time reminding one of the spoils of Africa.

2.This work tells of "Aunt Jennifer", who is the symbol of feminism in this particular poem. This poem offers an image of power revealed and restrained by domestic arts. This is shown in the case that she is controlled by her husband's wedding band, thus revealing that she Aunt Jennifer was expected to be a devoted and domesticated wife. Aunt Jennifer living her part in a man's world is forcing her into a role that she does not fit naturally. 1.Introduction of the tigers, how they are prancing across a screen--this is symbolizing Aunt Jennifer, roaming in a world freely; although it is telling of a screen she crafted. 2.The tigers are bright topaz denizens because they are different in the world, and are not just plain, (green), like everyone else. This symbolizes Aunt Jennifer's individual thinking, and how she is different. 3.The tigers don't fear the men beneath the tree because Aunt Jennifer did not fear men at first and was living as an independent individual with her own mind. 4.The tigers are slowly walking elegantly, showing that they are confident and 'chivalric' (gentlemanly)---this may show that Aunt Jennifer knows she is fine without having to be married. 5.This line is telling of Aunt Jen's fingers 'fluttering' through her wool--this is just an allusion using an activity she likes to do, to tell of how she was roaming freely and happily before marriage. 6.The ivory needle is a symbol for how hard it is to keep yourself independent and essentially a free-thinker when you are married. 7.Uncle's wedding band on her finger is massive because he is strict towards how she should be a domesticated wife and not a free soul. 8.It "sits heavily upon her hand" because her marriage has taken a toll on her, and she can feel it heavily on her heart and soul. 9.When Aunt Jen dies, she will die as a lonely and depressed woman, and her hands are terrified because they never got to be free again.

10.Jen's hands stand as a symbol of her body, in that she was tired and sick from the ordeals (being a housewife) that she was mastered by [her husband--making her act this way] 11-12.The tigers are a symbol of what will be left of Aunt Jen's existence after her death, in that she never got to "prance" as proud and unafraid when she was married and was constrained by what women were expected

3.I Think that "Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through her wool find even he ivory needle hard to pull" show another example of how she is trying to be artistic but she's struggling. "the MASSIVE weight of Uncle's wedding band sits HEAVILY..." when Ric uses these adjectives it gives the idea that Aunt Jennifer's marriage is weighing her down artistically.

4."The massive weight of Uncle's wedding ring" and "Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by"... I think these passages suggest that marriage can be constricting, not just for her, but any woman. She was alive and free to be herself in her artwork, but not in real life.

5.Aunt Jennifer's art is her mode of expressing her true feelings. Being married to a man is a constriction on her freedoms. Living her part in a man's world is forcing her into a role that she does not fill naturally. Her nature is that of a free spirit, as the tigers are. Free to roam with a grace that she cannot possess under the powers of a man.

6.Aunt Jennifer's Tigers, one of Rich's first published poems, was already a token of the inner split she has always deeply thought of as the starting point for the construction of her self. Aunt Jennifer, just like Rich, is torn between the woman artist and the woman who has to define herself in a men's world. Though she has the power to produce beauty, to be the tigers in her canvas, she is quite violently retrained by a patriarchal ostracism from the world of art, by double standards and the life she is expected to lead. In the end, we readers witness the sublimation of art and of its creator, as the tigers "go on prancing, proud and unafraid."