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    A Study Guide for Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck"
    A Study Guide for Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck"
    A Study Guide for Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck"
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    A Study Guide for Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck"

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    A Study Guide for Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535821964
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      A Study Guide for Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck" - Gale

      08

      Diving into the Wreck

      Adrienne Rich

      1973

      Introduction

      Diving into the Wreck, by the American poet Adrienne Rich, was first published as the title poem in her collection Diving into the Wreck in 1973. The book is still in print, and the poem also appears in the 2002 Norton Anthology of American Literature. The early 1970s was a time when the women's movement was having a significant influence on American society, and Rich's poem reflects her interest in feminism, taking the form of a heroic quest. The poet/speaker presents herself as a deep-sea diver who plunges into the ocean to examine the remains of an old sailing ship. The wreck she examines has different levels of meaning, referring to the neglected, unexamined inner lives of women, or perhaps to civilization itself, ruined by false ideas and stereotypes about gender and gender roles. The poet hopes to discard these falsehoods. Diving into the Wreck has had a prominent place in Rich's oeuvre ever since its publication. It expresses her search for the truth about women's lives and also represents an important landmark in the literature of second-wave feminism.

      Author Biography

      One of America's leading contemporary poets, Adrienne Rich was born on May 16, 1929, in Baltimore, Maryland. Her father, Arnold Rich, was a professor of pathology at Johns Hopkins University, and her mother, Helen Jones Rich, was a pianist and composer. Rich attended Radcliffe College, graduating in 1951 with an AB (cum laude). That same year she published her first book of poetry, A Change of World, for which she was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize.

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