Class 12 English Flamingo Poem - Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Video Lecture

good morning students how do you do
I hope you are fine well this is the
last chapter in series of poetry section
and I am now cent percent sure that you
are well acquainted with my style of
teaching and you would be definitely
expecting that the sir would be asking
us his pet question that is can anyone
guess about the picture given at the top
yes but so this would be my first
question and here you can see a picture
of a tiger and that too into a wooden
panel we call it but show a wooden panel
and here you can see a small thin needle
with some thread and here you can see a
screw we call it a wooden panel Jess a
apne Caprica opal drawing banana caca B
crochet work dick Huckabee of my sister
Co a mother cow a worker towei that is
actually that work which is been
portraited here so here you can find a
picture of a tiger and that tiger is
actually embroidered on a cloth say we
can call it a work of an art and here
this work of an art is of auntie
Jennifer that is the poet Edwin rich but
but so here every word has its own
meaning and has its own symbol say
before I start exactly coming to the
poem let me tell you that here the world
Tiger symbolizes the evil
viciousness we I see I owe us vicious
Ness of male dominance of male dominance
evil viciousness of male dominance is
actually the tiger now but you aren't
the Jennifers Tigers this is a title and
what exactly this aren't Jennifer tiger
means is they are her creation on
Jennifer's creation her work of an art
aren't Jennifer's creation CRE a tion
creation her work of art her work of art
is actually this on Jennifer's Tigers
this is the title actually okay so evil
viciousness of male dominance is the
symbol tiger here not simply means a
tiger that ferocious animal of course
the ferociousness has been described in
the poem but here it symbolizes male
chauvinism or male dominance okay so on
Jennifer's Tigers on Jennifer's creation
her work of art and let us move ahead by
reading about Adrienne Rich so born in
1929 was born in Baltimore Maryland USA
she is widely known for her involvement
in contemporary women's movement as a
poet and theorist and she's widely known
for her involvement she was very much
known for her involvement in
contemporary woman's movement
contemporary women's movement means what
the problem
the trials the tribulations under which
the woman had to undergo at that time
the problems contemporary to adren rich
at that time as a poet and as a theorist
not only as a poet she has behaved but
as a theorist also so she has published
19 volumes of poetry three collections
of essays and other writings a strong
resistance to racism and militarism eCos
through her work a strong resistance and
we can find a strong resistance strong
resistance means what a strong
opposition she resists to racism and
militarism dictatorship the race of men
and women in equality between male and
female has been resisted by Edwin rich
and a strong resistance to militarism
also echoes through her work the poem on
Jennifer Tigers addresses the
constraints of married life a woman
experiences but show the trials the
tribulations the problems which a woman
undergoes after a married life has been
beautifully described here in this poem
and on Jennifer's Tigers okay so you
have to keep these last two lines in
mind that the whole poem addresses the
constraints of married life a woman
experiences the problems which a woman
has to undergo during her married life
is say on Jennifer's Tigers okay so by
creating this art by creating this say
picture this portrait she has tried
somewhere to create an alternate world
for herself she is trying to liberate
her expressions
liberate her imposition of Uncle
Jennifer's by drawing by doing this
embroidery okay so before we move ahead
we will have to discuss an important
question which we are going to discuss
very short now