The Stranger – A Sign Of Hope
Sept. 28, 2005
The Stranger – A Sign of Hope
Adrienne Rich's Diving Into the Wreck manifests her vigorous emotions towards society's occlusion of her during the transitional period of her life from mother and wife to homosexuality, of which Margaret Atwood says, "is a response of ‘visionary anger,' which will hopefully precede the ability to love"(Cooper 240). Although Diving Into the Wreck contains many poems, Rich illuminates Atwood's claim in "The Stranger," by using grammatical and literal usages of prose, contrasting images of light and darkness, as well as a recurring theme of vision to demonstrate her displacement from, and even anger towards society, however, Atwood's claim fails to acknowledge Rich's great sense of hope, foreshadowed by the same images and language, in "The Stranger."
Rich uses literal and grammatical uses of text immediately, displaying her feeling of displacement. The first lines of the poem, "Looking as I've looked before, straight down the......
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