 When I speak of an end to suffering, I don't mean anesthesia. I mean knowing the world, and my place in it, not in order to stare with bitterness or detachment, but as a powerful and womanly series of choices: and here I write the words, in their fullness:...  Adrienne Rich: The Moment of Changeby Cheri Colby Langdell - 2004 - 277 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | Wendy Martin - 1984 - 286 pages
...an "end to suffering" and vows to bring her intelligence and understanding to bear on her existence: I mean knowing the world, and my place in it, not...write the words, in their fullness: powerful womanly. (Sources, 26) This poem outlines a female counter-quest— the mission is not to abandon the past in... | |
 | James McCorkle - 1989 - 282 pages
...deserts, morningglories, point to choices, leading away from the familiar. When I speak of an end to suffering I don't mean anesthesia. I mean knowing...write the words, in their fullness: powerful; womanly. (NL21) Rich closes "Sources" with the act of writing. She points to the gesture of writing as belonging... | |
 | Joanne Feit Diehl - 1990 - 236 pages
...Rich envisions herself as a survivor who can empower her life through the deliberateness of choice: "I mean knowing the world, and my place in it, not...write the words, in their fullness: powerful; womanly" ("Sources," XX111, p. 27). If here the polemical and aesthetic coincide in their assertive refusal... | |
 | Richard P. Sugg - 1992 - 474 pages
...deserts, morning-glories, point to choices, leading away from the familiar. When I speak of an end to suffering, I don't mean anesthesia. I mean knowing...write the words, in their fullness: powerful; womanly. Trilogy and Sources have required different kinds of commentary, but as poems of self-definition they... | |
 | Alice Templeton - 1994 - 212 pages
...deserts, morning-glories, point to choices, leading away from the familiar. When I speak of an end to suffering I don't mean anesthesia. I mean knowing...write the words, in their fullness: powerful; womanly. (XXIII) The "knowing" Rich describes here is not a formula, a destiny, a design, or a final epistemology;... | |
 | Jeanne Martha Perreault - 1995 - 170 pages
...choices, leading away from the familiar. When 1 speak of an end to suffering 1 don't mean anesthesia. 1 mean knowing the world, and my place in it, not in...a powerful and womanly series of choices: and here 1 write the words, in their fullness: powerful; womanly. August 1981 — August 1982(27) ln the first... | |
 | Stephen Paul Miller - 1999 - 438 pages
..."Sources" to her father. Rich concludes "Sources" by placing "powerful" and "womanly" in apposition: I mean knowing the world, and my place in it, not...write the words in their fullness: powerful; womanly (27: 5-9) The speaker equates her father to "a land" she "will never know" (26: 4) because he did not... | |
 | Marc J. Straus - 2000 - 560 pages
...deserts, morning-glories, point to choices, leading away from the familiar. When I speak of an end to suffering, I don't mean anesthesia. I mean knowing...write the words, in their fullness: powerful; womanly. Trilogy and Sources have required different kinds of commentary, but as poems of self-definition they... | |
 | Margaret Dickie - 1997 - 252 pages
...sequence, Rich admits that what she has been seeking is a knowledge of the world: When I speak of an end to suffering I don't mean anesthesia. I mean knowing...write the words, in their fullness: powerful; womanly. (YNYL, z7) Almost a decade after Sources, in An Atlas of the Difficul1 World (1991), Rich locates herself... | |
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