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‘Diving into the Wreck’ by Adrienne Rich is a ten stanza poem that is separated into stanzas of varying lengths. They range from around seven lines to around twelve. Rich wrote this poem in free verse, meaning that it does not make use of a rhyme scheme or metrical pattern.
The poem opens as the speaker prepares for a deep-sea dive and then follows the speaker's exploration of a shipwreck. Rich was a leading feminist poet, and many critical interpretations view the poem as an extended metaphor relating to the struggle for women's rights and liberation.
The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years' child: The Mariner hath his will. The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner. 'The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared, Merrily did we drop.
Are those her ribs through which the Sun Did peer, as through a grate? And is that Woman all her crew? Is that a DEATH? and are there two? Is DEATH that woman's mate? Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Night-Mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.
A brave and startling truth. And when we come to it To the day of peacemaking When we release our fingers From fists of hostility And allow the pure air to cool our palms.
Set during and after World War II, the poem captures the abrupt shift from war's brutality to postwar's normalcy. The themes of hope and despair resonate with the time period's volatile nature, as survivors grappled with the psychological and emotional impact of war.
