Adrienne Rich's Quest for Feminist Poetics

摘要

Adrienne Rich has been regarded as a foremost poet,essayist and feminist in contemporary America.Her poetry of the 1970s marks the shift of her poetic stance from the imitation and inheritance of the modern male poetic tradition to feminist poetics.The formation of Rich's feminist poetics is the outcome of her life experiences and the social context around the 1970s.Rich adheres to the principle of"writing as revision"on the part of women,shows much concern for the poetic depiction of women's experiences,and questions the materiality of life.Rich's quest for feminist poetics is directed both towards the outer world in which women live and women's inner world.She tries to remap the"cartography"of women's own in the patriarchal world by weaving her feminist thoughts into the poems.And simultaneously,she provides her profound thinking about women's existence as integral human beings,thus expressing her life philosophy in poetry writing.