Why do you think Aunt Jennifer created animals that are so different from her own character? What might the poet be suggesting, through this difference?
Solution and Explanation
The timid and fearful Aunt Jennifer creates an alternative world of free and fearless tigers to express her longing for freedom, a medium of escape from her grim marriage. The ironical contrast underscores a warning by the poet against acceptance of subjugation by women as it crushes their dreams, individuality and a full life.
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Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through her wool
Find even the ivory needle hard to pull. The massive
weight of wedding band Uncle's
sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand.
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Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.
They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.
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