{"id":116,"date":"2016-09-15T20:46:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T00:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/?p=116"},"modified":"2016-09-15T20:46:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T00:46:46","slug":"fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2016\/09\/15\/fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lines Focused on:<\/span><\/p>\n

And the truth of briars she had to have run through<\/span><\/p>\n

I craved to feel on her pelt if my hands could even slide<\/span><\/p>\n

past of her body slide between then sharp truth distressing<\/span><\/p>\n

surfaces of fur<\/span><\/p>\n

Adrienne Rich\u2019s poem \u201cFox\u201d is particular in its slight differences from some of Rich\u2019s other poems in her collection. This specific poem is more subtle in addressing its meanings and themes, however, Rich still incorporates several of the same ideas she address’s in her other poems. While reading the poem for the first time the first four lines, of the second stanza, particularly stood out at me. The passage, seemingly about a fox in its natural habitat, is much more than the animalistic creature Rich subjects it to be. The fox may symbolize another individual, most likely another woman, on the account that she regards the fox as female in the first line of this stanza. The speaker yearns for the fox\u2019s, or women\u2019s, attention \u201ccrav[ing] to feel her pelt if my hand could even slide.\u201d On several accounts Rich incorporates the erotic into her poems, a sensation that is deeply, yet openly, embedded within her life. In these specific lines, the erotic is exemplified through diction Rich choices to use to describe her desire to be close to this woman (fox). The line breaks are also significant in that between the words \u201cpelt\u201d and \u201cif\u201d we see another hypothetical, an instance of thought that reoccurs throughout Rich\u2019s poems. As she desires this women, in her natural habitat, like the fox in nature, she questions if her body could really allow her to be with her, \u201cif my hands could even slide.\u201d This line makes me wonder if there is something or someone stopping her from letting her \u201cslide past or her body slide between them\u201d because of the use of the word \u201cif,\u201d and this hypothetical scenario. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lines Focused on: And the truth of briars she had to have run through I craved to feel on her pelt if my hands could even slide past of her body slide between then sharp truth distressing surfaces of fur Adrienne Rich\u2019s poem \u201cFox\u201d is particular in its slight differences from some of Rich\u2019s other … Continue reading Fox<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}