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Poet: Adrienne Rich (Adrienne Rich Art)
Poem: Power
Year: Published/Written in 1974
Comment 4 of 4, added on September 7th, 2009 at 7:42 AM.
Marie Curie was the woman who created the succes in making atomic bombs with atoms, the poem is of Maries success, though how her obsession with it became the death of her. Contrasting Marie Curies wounds an way of life to be obsessed with her ambition/professional success also personal aggrandisement and the consequences.
Rebecca Leigh
Comment 3 of 4, added on November 15th, 2007 at 3:57 PM.
Ok sorry but your both wrong! This a a potical poem that deals with a woman haveing to prove herself in a male dominated sociaty. Rich feels empathy for Marie because she to had to deal with hard times ("Winters of this climate") As she to knows what it feels like being a female poet when it was dominated by man (See "The Roofwalker"). Marie Over exposes herself to the radiation to prove herself to men. Rich end this poem in a pesstimistic tone. She is dissapointed that Marie had to die to prove herself
laura from Ireland
Comment 2 of 4, added on March 21st, 2006 at 2:43 AM.
No, no, no. This is all about the feminist paradox. Rich was someone who was very aware of two separate roles of a feminist; protecting the "sacred gift" of creation, and fighting opression. In order for Rich to feel that she was truly a woman, she needed to have children. But this meant that, in the 60's at least, she would have to become domesticated. She considered this a fate worse than death, because she could not use her brilliant mind. Marie Curie's cause of death ironically came from the same source as her power...purification of radiation. Rich is using this as a complex metaphor, saying that all women "die" from the source or their power; motherhood.
Mille
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Marie Curie was the woman who created the succes in making atomic bombs with atoms, the poem is of Maries success, though how her obsession with it became the death of her. Contrasting Marie Curies wounds an way of life to be obsessed with her ambition/professional success also personal aggrandisement and the consequences.
Rebecca Leigh