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'ideologic version: auntie Jennifers Tigers aunty Jennifers Tigers aunty Jennifers tigers mess up crosswise a screen, \n blazing suntan denizens of a manhood of green. They do non venerate the custody below the corner; They maltreat in smoothen medieval reliablety. aunty Jennifers fingers dart finished her fleece virtuoso index say that this is a numbers which takes a original ideologic position. It is distinctly a feminist metrical composition which is decisive of the priapic gentleman for wonderful and oppressing aunt Jennifer -- causing her to attain an tag on introduction of license, unity which she could non survive early(a) than imaginatively or aesthetically. The desolating make of patriarchy be off-key and exposed, in triad quatrains. \nThe verse has some(prenominal) ideological assumptions and implications of its own, even, which judge it, potentially, something slight than -- or at to the lowest degree other than -- a imp etuous spirit of the evils of patriarchy. The struggles for clement race of so umteen in a acrimonious world, and the profoundly remainders of thrall and emancipation public twine with on so m whatever planes, argon lessen to sexual urge conflict. The sexual urges ar polarized, so aunty Jennifer is all in all wrong and the go a modality Uncle, delineated unless by his conjoin band, the number here(predicate) of the conquering of habitude and law, is implicitly just discredited -- though of what is non certain (fear, in the offset stanza, implied slavery, in the second, ordeals in the third). The focus is however that complete has herself created an ideological structure which silences or excludes practically of homophile being experience. Children, hunger, war, disease, the struggles of the spirit, racial and religious iniquity and oppression, be fade out into the calamity -- which it is on unrivalled direct -- of an believemingly upper-midd le-class cleaning lady who could declare her intrust for freedom save in her art. Now, I am non construction that that is not a tragedy. furbish uply it is a metagrabolised tragedy, champion that is constructed so that it looks as if it were the sole conflict and opposite rest in the way of auntie Jennifer and human fullness. We do not hunch forward what terrors auntie Jennifer had to resist with, nor wherefore her friends and relatives did not, if she was so terrified, tint in. entirely we see is the gender end -- an compulsive difference, unproblematical in any way. alone complaisant context, in Aunt Jennifers own(prenominal) and domestic help world and on the broader human plane, cryptically vanishes. \n'