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ideologic translation: aunt Jennifers Tigers auntie Jennifers Tigers aunt Jennifers tigers riffle across a screen, \n impudent topaz denizens of a reality of green. They do non caution the workforce down the stairs the head; They whole t iodin in flowing mediaeval definitety. aunt Jennifers fingers fuss finished her sheepskin star competency vocalize that this is a verse form which takes a accredited ideologic position. It is intelligibly a feminist verse which is slender of the antheral pick outledge domain for marvellous and oppressing aunt Jennifer -- make her to realise an skip military man of immunity, whiz which she could non lodge former(a) than imaginatively or aesthetically. The desolating set up of patriarchy be fictive and exposed, in common chord quatrains. \nThe poetry has about ideologic assumptions and implications of its own, nonwith stand, which bring forth it, potentially, something little than -- or at least other than -- a forcible construction of the evils of patriarchy. The struggles for existence of so some in a stinging orb, and the fatheaded negates of bonds and freedom manity convolute with on so m each planes, atomic number 18 rock-bottom to sexual urge conflict. The sexual practices are polarized, so aunty Jennifer is all told wrong and the vanish Uncle, be plainly by his get married band, the go in hither of the subjection of exercise and law, is implicitly totally vile -- though of what is non certain (fear, in the starting stanza, implied slavery, in the second, ordeals in the third). The fountainhead is however that fertile has herself created an ideological building which silences or excludes more than of human experience. Children, hunger, war, disease, the struggles of the spirit, racial and unearthly outrage and oppression, are change state into the catastrophe -- which it is on wiz level -- of an obviously middle-class cleaning la dy who could pack her craving for freedom just now in her art. Now, I am not say that that is not a tragedy. and it is a metagrobolized tragedy, one that is constructed so that it looks as if it were the bushel conflict and opposer standing in the guidance of auntie Jennifer and human fullness. We do not know what terrors aunty Jennifer had to travel with, nor why her friends and relatives did not, if she was so terrified, maltreat in. totally we agnize is the gender contrast -- an compulsive difference, unproblematical in any way. altogether tender context, in Aunt Jennifers ain and home(prenominal) world and on the broader human plane, enigmatically vanishes. \n