According to the narration or the flow of the poem, it describes a lady is Jennifer. The poet asserts that aunt Jennifer does all about embroidery on a piece of cloth, where the decoration is designed with tigers which are beautiful. Depending on the intention of the poet, several styles and organizations are employed in the poem which gives the poem a systematic flow of narration. Through the designs of the tigers, the poets illustrate that one can project the desire for aunt Jennifer’s freedom, where she asserts that it might not be possible for Jennifer t achieve the freedom, she requires throughout her lifetime. Despite all, symbolisms, genres, and styles are displayed in the story which brings about the full context of the poem.
However, in the poem after the first stanza which was dealing with the embroidery of Jennifer, the second stanza entails that the fingers of the lady trembles because of the fear of her husband. She finds it hard to pull the ivory needle and the poet explains that Jennifer is very dependent on her husband. Besides the first two stanzas, the third stanza is that when Jennifer is dead her hands tend to lie(MICHAEL JAMES et.al 63-66). Through her work of decorating tigers, it shows that she had a wish to live; a life that was fearless where after the occurrence of death, her ring will remain on her finger. Furthermore, the narration of the poem shows that under all the works that she did, Jennifer lived a life of being too much submissive to her husband.
Consequently, throughout the narration of the poem, various symbols are used to illustrate the certain idea. Symbolism in a poem play is of significance because it enables or allows the writers to display and express ideas that are complex while on the other hand giving the reader a visual with a sensory experience. According to the poem, the poet uses some of the tools to illustrate ideas with their actual meanings(Robert et.al 377). For example, in the first part, symbolism is portrayed whereby the poet uses aunt Jennifer’s tigers which moved across a wall with bright colors. Under the creation of the tigers by Jennifer, it symbolized her dreams. However, her dreams were actually to live a free life dominated by freedom and free from oppression since she had a lot of fears about this. She used tigers because always they are re bold enough hence Jennifer wanted to be as brave as the tigers, furthermore, the submissiveness that she gave to her husband made Jennifer divert her thoughts fully.
Another sense of symbolism that is portrayed in the poem is that Jennifer’s fingers tend to flutter all through her work while working on the wool. Also, it was difficult for her to pull an ivory needle, through the fluttering of their hands it was significant because Jennifer would generate beautifully decorated tigers. During his wedding, the band that was offered to her by the uncle became too heavy on her hand. Indication of this heaviness was that her marriage was not pleasant because the marriage was a burden to her(Robert et.al 380). The assumption in Jennifer’s state of marriage is that it is not easy to overcome such kind of a situation. she feels that there is subjection to the marital bond which is a huge burden to her. Hence this image shows Jennifer was heavy-hearted all her life just because of her husbands’ commands.
Allusion n the ant Jennifer’s poem is portrayed in several ways. The allusion is a particular set of the poem is of importance because it often creates a simple metaphor which helps in the intensification and it vivifies the message of the poet by either suggesting or hinting a meaning to the reader in-depth(Pratt et.al63). However, the poem alludes to “the tiger” which has a description of a bright tiger, whereby the poet illustrated in a further way that Jennifer would be brave where she makes the story pretty neat when referring to herself to be a tiger. furthermore, the poem illustrates that Jennifer is a silenced woman and is dominated by the superiority of the male feeble and indecisive.
Genre however is another factor that is ought to be considered in the poem. according to Jennifer’s poem feminism is literary the genre of the poet. Whereby Jennifer talks full control of the illustrations and actions in the poem. For example, in the women and fiction of Woolf, also the imagery of animals is used to inject the power of feminists like the vision of Jennifer where she trebly focuses on her life(Pratt et.al 63). Besides the genre that is found in the poem, some styles are employed in the poem like personification. Justification of personification is achieved where the tiger is personified as a human being which is a reference to aunt Jennifer. where it is described that the tiger is brave enough to be fearless. Also, hyperbole is used which is an exaggeration of a statement like the description of the massive weight of the uncles’ band during the wedding.
In conclusion, the poem’s intention about the story of Jennifer was to represent the life of a woman. this aunt Jennifer plays a significant role and is an example to the feminist group through her characteristics of being brave and enduring all that she went through in her marriage. However, the main theme in the poem is that aunt Jennifer’s tiger tends to relate to the issue and domination in society. Under the theme, it tries to elaborate on some of the conflicts that emerge in various marriages and which face specifically a woman in chauvinisticity of the opposite gender in society today.
Works Cited
MICHAEL JAMES, RIZZA. AUNT Jennifers Tigers. July 2017.
Pratt, Annis. “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers: Notes toward a Preliterary History of Women’s Archetypes.” Feminist Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, Feb. 2018, p. 163, 10.2307/3177634.
Robert. The fate of Good Poems. 2020.
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