Aunt Jennifer's tiger

THEME

The poem revolves around the desires and the depressingly Harsh realities of Aunt
Jennifer'sexistence, using contrast between the tigers and herself. The tigers appear to be in
Shark contrast in her personality. The tigers action are smooth, uninhibited and proud. On
Jennifer on the other hand has a great trouble even to embroidered because her moments are
so weak. Aunt Jennifer is a lonely pained ,old woman plagued by anxiety. The reason for her
miserable flight is the operation family system where the whole sole of the family is the mail
and it is he who dominate the scene. She create send world of freedom a world that she longed
for through the tigers.

Q1. What is armed Jennifer'saim in life?

Ans. Aunt Jennifer's aim in life is to lead a fearless and bold life this is apparent by the tigers
she create. They represent her lodging to earn respect and dignity and to lead a life which is free
from male domination.

Q2. What will happen to earn Jennifer's tiger when she is dead?

Ans .The tiger is created by areJennifer's are eternal. They will keep on prancing even after her
death. This tigers are born out of a imagination in response to the operation she goes through in
the patriarchal society.

Q3. What is the weight that lies heavy on and Jennifer's hand? How is it associated with her
husband??

Ans. Aunt Jennifer's had a troubled married life with a dominating and operation husband .She
tries to find refuge in her to fight these demons but even here ,there is no respite. This makes
her hand fever so much that she finds it hard to knit.

Q4. What picture of male chauvinism do we find in the poem?

Ans. It shows constraints that are married women experience .Uncle's wedding band on aunt
Jennifer's finger symbolise.es the operation banned of the patriarchal society and Jennifer is a
force to leave in accordance with her with the rules let down by a male dominated world she
does not have freedom.

POETIC DEVICES

1. IRONY

2. METAPHOR

Ringed with ordeals

4. Imagery

5. Transferred epithet

Terrified fingers

6. Symbol

1. Tiger

2. bright topaz

3. Fluttering wool

4. Uncle's wedding band

7. Personification

1. They piece in sleep chivalric certainty

2. the tiger in the panel that she made

Will go on Pran Singh proud and un afraid.