Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow (from 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers' by Adrienne Rich):

Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.
They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.

(b) Why do the tigers not fear the men beneath the tree?

Question

Read the following extracts and answer the questions for any one of the given two, (a) or (b) :

Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victory with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their
brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.

(Keeping Quiet)

Answer 1

Step 1: Contrast with Aunt Jennifer's real fear:
Unlike Aunt Jennifer, who trembles under her husband's dominance, the tigers she creates are bold and unafraid because they exist purely in her imagination, unbound by her real fears.

Step 2: Final Answer:
Being figures of pure imagination and art, the tigers are untouched by the real-world fear and oppression Aunt Jennifer herself experiences, so they roam fearlessly.

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