...(SDL, 13). Rich writes of the fear and guilt experienced by the woman who pierces cultural illusions: "A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. / The beak that grips her, she becomes" (SDL, 2.2.). In "Double Monologue" (1960), anger, denied, is converted into despair and even madness...

...insatiable." "Save yourself; others you cannot save." Immediately following the maxim passage, Rich writes, "A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. / The beak that grips her, she becomes." Clearly we are to read "the angels chiding" the woman in section two as monsters. I go further and...

...defamiliarization, and linguistic distance suggested in the source-text. One example will suffice: 3. A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. The beak that grips her, she becomes. And Nature, that sprung-lidded, still commodious steamer-trunk of tempora and mores gets stuffed with...

...critique of modernism with a critique of a millennial-old ideology through the allusion to Yeats's Leda: "A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. / The beak that grips her, she becomes" (SDL 22). As DuPlessis argues, Rich turns back on itself Yeats's question, "Did she put on his knowledge...

...Eliot used Jesse Weston. There is a tissue of reference to such classic modernist texts as Yeats's "Leda and the Swan." When Yeats asks, "Did she put...power and knowledge. Anger, rupture, and a wounding self-initiation define this text. The three poems of the first section discuss the intricate but limited...

...their sense of self-worth into an endless play for male approval, to the detriment of their minds, A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. The beak that grips her, she becomes. of their bodies, Dulce ridens, dulce loquens, she shaves her legs until they gleam like petrified mammoth-tusk....

...probably angels, since nothing hurts her anymore, except each morning's grit blowing into her eyes. 3. A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. The beak that grips her, she becomes. And Nature, that sprung-lidded, still commodious steamer-trunk of témpora and mores gets stuflfed...

...2005 813'. 52— dc22 2005017312 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available I '; i •> A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. The beak that grips her, she becomes. Adrienne Rich Í I ti h t 3 t -J 'r 1 TO MY MOTHER, JILL TITUS, IN GRATITUDE FOR A LIFETIME OF BOOKS...

...wearing a — what do you call it? — charity belt. You know what she has hanging on her wall? Listen. 'A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. / The beak that grips her, she becomes.' Who could stay with a woman who puts such poetry on her wall? And what is this beak, do you know? Something...

...his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the Swan" A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. The beak that grips her, she becomes. Adrienne Rich, "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" One morning in October 1985, the little world of AngloAmerican...