"Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev" Love, fear, jealousy, courage and death all have a major role in Adrienne Rich's "Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev." Adrienne Rich takes us inside Shatayev's head and depicts her joys and feeling of triumph along with her lingering undertones of jealousy. The use of the journals helps to relate the comradery and love within the team but also serves to paint a picture of an ungrateful Shatayev. Throughout this poem there are repeated declarations of love and friendship for the team members contrasted by subtle negligence of the husband's feelings. In the poem Shatayev seems to draw all her strength from the women of her climbing tea