Part one of term paper
English 206 - Modern and Contemporary Literature Dr. Carstens In her "Twenty-One Love Poems," Adrienne Rich arranges a series of nature images in order to investigate the relationship between self and city, self and lover. Throughout this collection of poems, nature serves as a symbol of psychic life and shock, and it can be difficult to int ...

Part two of term paper
... water quite differently pertains to the psyche's capability to subdue traumatic events. I would like to start analyzing these images of nature by looking at Rich's belief of what poetry is supposed to do? She suggests that A poem can't free us from the struggle for existence, but it can uncover desires and appetites buried under the accumulating emergencies of our lives, the fabricated wants and needs we have had urged on us, have accepted as our own. It's not a philosophical or psychologic ...