tiger represents the mystery of creation, both divine and artistic. The reader immediately senses the frustration transmitted by the poem, and caused by the conflict between Aunt Jennifer's married life and her aesthetic life. The rhyme of the poem is tight and pressing, intended to suggest the feminine world of Aunt Jennifer oppressed by the male husband, or by the married life that dominates and restrains her freedom. This idea of male oppression is suggested by the tigers fearless pride and certainty, which represents the free world of thought where the woman can escape:
             " Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen,
             Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.
             The do not fear the men beneath the tree;
             They pace in sleek chivalric certainty." (Rich)
             Significantly, the poet chose the work of embroidery to symbolize the woman's intellectual world, p
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