Rape By Adrienne Rich
Rape by Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich's blatant poem, Rape, speaks a strong theme of a distrust of male authority. She establishes a male audience in the first stanza (the phrase "brothers" indicates male bonds), in order to show them what one of their brethren – a cop, a figure of authority perverted to one of death ("machinery to kill you") – has a sexist attitude, not in despite of his morals, but because of them.
Rich's portrait of the cop is one that shifts from a physical description to a much deeper "moral" description, the clues of which are very subtle, like the fact that his hand is always resting on his gun, ready to kill those who cross him. The poem introduces his dark character and hardly even focuses on the rape victim, who expresses automatic distrust ("you have/to turn to him", line break emphasizing the have). The following stanzas follow a pattern, beginning with the victim illustrating her rape experience first and ending with the......
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