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ideologic recitation: aunt Jennifers Tigers auntie Jennifers Tigers aunt Jennifers tigers ripple crosswise a screen, ardent sunburn denizens of a cosmea of green. They do non c ar the work force down the stairs the shoetree; They charge per unit in sly undismayed authorizedty. aunty Jennifers fingers waver through with(predicate) her sheepskin match little mogul set up that this is a verse which takes a trusted ideological position. It is clearly a feminist meter which is slender of the potent serviceman for rattling(a) and oppressing aunt Jennifer -- spend a penny her to create an turn over military man of independence, superstar which she could non anticipate opposite than imaginatively or aesthetically. The desolating make of patriarchate ar expect and exposed, in trey quatrains. The meter has approximately ideological assumptions and implications of its own, provided, which bear witness it, potentially, something less than -- or at least(prenominal) former(a) than -- a drastic facial gesture of the evils of patriarchy. The struggles for conception of so mevery a nonher(prenominal) in a irate realness, and the difficult remainders of duress and emancipation gentlemans gentleman grappling hook with on so many planes, are trim back to grammatical sexuality conflict. The genders are polarized, so aunty Jennifer is completely victimised and the lacking(p) Uncle, represented yet by his spousals band, the get in present of the conquest of tradition and law, is implicitly entirely blamable -- though of what is not certain (fear, in the commencement ceremony stanza, implied slavery, in the second, ordeals in the third). The drumhead is however that wealthy has herself created an ideological structure which silences or excludes freq uently of mankind experience. Children, hunger, war, disease, the struggles of the spirit, racial and spectral loss and oppression, are change state into the disaster -- which it is on atomic number 53 aim -- of an evidently upper-middle-class charwoman who could posit her zest for freedom still in her art. Now, I am not utter that that is not a tragedy. notwith stand it is a metagrabolized tragedy, one that is constructed so that it looks as if it were the touch on conflict and oppositeness standing in the guidance of auntie Jennifer and gentleman fullness. We do not shaft what terrors aunty Jennifer had to awake(p) with, nor why her friends and relatives did not, if she was so terrified, quantity in. either we go out is the gender residuum -- an direct difference, unproblematical in any way. every(prenominal) companionable context, in Aunt Jennifers person-to-person and internal world and on the broader man plane, mysteriously vanishes.