Adrienne Rich Bias

Bias, is our personal set of thoughts and beliefs that are carried throughout life. Bias is unavoidable, due to each person developing different experiences and thus different perspectives. Adrienne Rich uses her writing as a political outlet to be able to convey her message to the masses. She was a woman that strived for social justice and wrote about many inequalities. Though a lot of her writing was about social inequalities and the problems within, all of her pieces came from her moral compass. For example, her choice to be a feminist influenced her writing immensely and increased the feminist pieces she wrote. It is inevitable writers often write what they want to be heard; their pieces are their art of these expressions. Personal writing develops different perspectives and often relies on demonstrating a solution and or source to a problem as demonstrated in the poem Rape. This fault often fall's unto government morals and structure, the higher power. Thus there is always a conclusion that becomes inherently political; it is inevitable to …show more content…
This is demonstrated throughout media, social approaches, education system etc. Things like rape culture have evolved from these gender inequalities and continues to be predominant within woman's suffrage. Women often during the 70s were not given value to rape cases. Instead they had to fear, "will you swallow, will you deny them, will you lie your way home" (Rich, 45) Due to Rich's experience of women's oppression where there was, "a woman terribly vulnerable, critical, using femaleness as a sort of standard or yardstick to measure and discard men" (Rich Compulsory heterosexuality, 1) there lay an inherent political emphasis on gender roles. Adrienne Rich was popular for speaking about what was not heard and through that, she as well had a bias and a different perspective that lead towards more political