Physical Artifacts in Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" and Seamus Heaney's "The Harvest Bow" In the poems "The Harvest Bow" and "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" , the physical artifacts represented in each poem is symbolic of each characters ideal world. The poets do not confine themselves with the restrictions imposed by poetry where ideas are conveyed solely through the utilization of words. The poems utilize a poetic technique, where the use of physical artifacts such as a painting or ornament are used as a means to convey the poets tho