Nature Imagery in Adrienne Rich's "Twenty-One Love Poems" English 206 - Modern and Contemporary Literature In her "Twenty-One Love Poems," Adrienne Rich arranges a series of nature images in order to investigate the relationship between self and city, self and lover. Throughout this collection of poems, nature serves as a symbol of psychic life and shock, and it can be difficult to interpret the various natural metaphors which Rich uses. One can, however, group these images into categories, and I will suggest two. On one hand there are images of growing plants, most notably trees. On the other hand are bodies of water. While the trees allow Rich an outlet to represent a sense of belonging (or, rootedness), the water quite differently pertains to the psyche's capability to subdue traumatic events. I would like....

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