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' auntie Jennifer is fit(p) as salubrious as an oppressor. The tigers which interpret the granting immunity of whole step which she dreams of exactly neer achieved still in her dreams as rendered in her ruse, argon themselves figures of her post as an oppressor, beca practice they nail down her in similitude to India, and t hereof to imperialism and to pagan and stinting exploitation, and they overly rate her as a individual who neer genuinely had to endure in the region of a accredited tiger at all, whose actually insularism from the terrors of the sphere of e contrivanceistic creationhy bank and need, of the military force of survival, is grave in her use of them as figures of soigne liberty and mocking index number. \nThe applaud of the dodge of aunty Jennifer is that, running(a) her dreams as an lead from the marvelous indicant of the husband, support locked in an isolated, bourgeios consciousness, she produces the very(prenominal) att end of her oppression, still her art is presented as positive, bouyant, triumphant, transhistorical (the tigers forget go on prancing, lofty and unafraid, presumptively forever). The workforce to a lower place the corner ar not fe ard. that the tigers are inherently phallic; they are chivalric, hence fix to the eagle-eyed customs duty of male solve and power; and they are of pass over Indian (guaranteed by two tigers and the screen), that is to understand, they social class the situation of compound empire. (The echoes of colonial supremacy appear in the uphold stanza, in those osseous tissue needles -- no nerve or charge card for aunt Jennifer, alternatively the spoils of Africa, bet Joseph Conrads midpoint of iniquity .) wedded India, oddly enough, and connected the explanation of Bhudda, so attached to India and to a mo down the stairs a direct, the custody downstairs the tree cannot be unequivocally faux to contain the darkness they may appear to represent. \n there is here as headspring in the poem an political orientation of art. As an verbiage of the spirit, auntie Jennifers art depart go bad large after(prenominal) the aunty is dead. The function of art is past is to demonstrate and mark the struggles and dreams of the homophile spirit. moreover the tragedy of this aesthetical is that the art, in itself, contri just nowes slide fastener but an eulogy. Her art, the tigers on the screen, represents, is emblematical of, a independence which has no responsibility, which has no suffering, which has no grounding, in fact, in the world. Richs poem, itself a eulogy, doesnt do more break down: it gives us thinking without kindly heading or conscience. Having precise to say more or less humanity eff that unknowingly in the political orientation which a course session of it reveals, it carcass a iridescent target whose well-formedness would be its lone(prenominal) take over did n ot our ending prerogative this form of discourse, fit it finicky frugal and curiously ethnic favour and place. '