Aunt's Jennifer Tigers

 

•Why do you think Aunt Jennifers hands are fluttering through her wool?

Aunt Jenifer's hands are fluttering through her wool because she is frightened and subdued. Her marriage ring becomes a burden for her because it symbolizes how she is oppressed and controlled by her husband. This is why she is unable to even pull the needle.

• How do denizens and chivalric add to our understanding of the tigers 

attitudes?

The poet also mentions that tigers move in an elegant chivalric way. This shows the majestic and honorable position they occupy in the wild among all animals. They are proud and fearless creatures. In this way, 'denizens' and 'chivalric' add to our understanding of the tigers' attitudes.

•Why do you think Aunt Jennifer created animals that are so different from her own character? What might the poet be suggesting, through this difference?

Aunt Jennifer was full of fear and was timid but she created an opposite world of freedom and fearless tigers to express her suffering from freedom, and wants a medium of escape from her marriage.

Through this contrast the poet rises the situation of the women who has sinked in the duties and responsibilities of their family and completely lost their identity and individuality and lost their dreams.