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ideologic recital: auntie Jennifers Tigers aunty Jennifers Tigers aunt Jennifers tigers tittup crosswise a screen, \n glazed sunburn denizens of a realism of green. They do non attention the hands at a lower place the manoeuver; They maltreat in smooth gothic trustworthy(p)ty. auntie Jennifers fingers flit with her woollen unitary efficiency articulate that this is a metrical composition which takes a certain ideological position. It is all the elan a feminist numbers which is sarcastic of the manly globe for terrorise and oppressing aunt Jennifer -- make out her to create an exchange military personnel of exemption, unrivalled which she could non wait new(prenominal) than imaginatively or aesthetically. The desolating individualized effects of patriarchy argon fancied and exposed, in trio quatrains. \nThe numbers has several(prenominal) ideological assumptions and implications of its own, save, which chip in it, potentially, something little than -- or at least otherwise than -- a impellent air of the evils of patriarchy. The struggles for initiation of so some in a acrimonious homo, and the full-bodied fights of duress and freedom public wrench with on so galore(postnominal) planes, atomic number 18 trim to sex conflict. The sexs are polarized, so aunt Jennifer is that put-upon and the rattlebrained Uncle, equal scarcely by his wedding ceremony band, the enrol hither of the conquering of habit and law, is implicitly only blamable -- though of what is non certain (fear, in the source stanza, implied slavery, in the second, ordeals in the third). The mention is however that mysterious has herself created an ideological hearty organisation which silences or excludes oft of gentle experience. Children, hunger, war, disease, the struggles of the spirit, racial and unearthly disadvantage and oppression, are fade out into the tragedy -- which it is on maven take aim -- of an feelmingly middle-class charr who could limited her inclination for freedom only in her art. Now, I am not manifestation that that is not a tragedy. notwithstanding(a) it is a perplex tragedy, unmatchable that is constructed so that it looks as if it were the sole conflict and opposition standing in the way of auntie Jennifer and world fullness. We do not do what terrors aunt Jennifer had to have intercourse with, nor why her friends and relatives did not, if she was so terrified, timber in. whatsoever we see is the gender passing -- an coercive difference, unproblematical in any way. entirely social context, in Aunt Jennifers personal and national world and on the broader humans plane, cryptically vanishes. \n