"Diving into the Wreck" is one of Adrienne Rich's most memorable poems. As we talked about in class' Rich was a feminist writer who supported women's liberation for most of her life. This poem shows how she wanted to give power to women. The quote "First having read the book of myths, and loaded the camera, and checked the edge of the knife-blade I put on the body-armor of black rubber" I get almost a warrior impression from this line and almost link it to the goddess Athena in which she's referring to "the book of myths". Maybe she is referring to mythology and how the goddess Athena was a woman warrior-like goddess. The poem continues to give the speaker a sense of heroism which gives me the impression of "girl power".
I really like this poem and far as Rich her tactics on feminism seem to hold women with power instead of slamming men or being dark like Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton which would make sense because the two had confessional style poems.
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