Adrienne Rich's "Diving Into The Wreck"
Adrienne Rich uses many poetic resources in her poem "Diving into the Wreck." In this poem a diver goes on a trip to investigate a shipwreck in the socially accepted schema. Rich shifts the role of the hero and the strategy for success in her second schema. In the second schema the hero goes on a journey where she discovers her true identity, both female and male.
The hero prepares for the journey into the sea by reading the book of myths, collecting a camera and knife, and putting on a diving suit. The diver is alone, unlike Jacques Cousteau, who had a team to accompany him on his dives. She brings a camera because she will find things on her dive that she does not want to forget. The persona wears "absurd flippers" and an "awkward mask" (Vendler, 503). Although her gear is clumsy on land, it is necessary to survive under water. The persona descends down a ladder into the sea. The repetition of the phrase "I go down" in the third stanza show that this is a slow and gradual......
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