Adrienne Rich and Women\u27s Confinement

Adrienne Rich\u27s poems Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law, Living in Sin, and From a Survivor weave a tale of the average American housewife expressing her discontent with her day-to-day and searching for a way out. All three poems contain themes of societal oppression scaled to a personal level, and the varying conclusions speak to the harsh reality of being a woman in the mid-twentieth century. Rich\u27s career as an activist defined her poetic style, and her feminist pieces have remained relevant decades after they were originally published