****** ****** April 29, 1998 Adrienne Rich Comparing and Contrasting Poems. "From where does your strength come, you southern jew/ split at the root, raised in a castle of air". This is a quote from Adrienne Rich's 1982 essay, "Sources". Adrienne Rich is a southern jew who grew up in the forties. As she grew up, her father hid the fact that they were Jewish. Her father acted like he was fully assimilated and didn't show ethnicity in any way. …showed first 75 words of 1290 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1290 total…W. Norton & Company, 1991. Microsoft Encarta 1997 Encyclopedia. Simone Weil. CD-ROM. 1993-1996 Microsoft. Kilgore, Kathryn. Rituals of Self-Hatred, Arts of Survival. VLS. No. 3, December 1981. P.22, 30 Bibliography Works Cited: 1. Rich, Adrienne. A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far. Canada: George J. Mcloed Limited, 1981. 2. Rich, Adrienne. An Atlas Of The Difficult World. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. Microsoft Encarta 1997 Encyclopedia. Simone Weil. CD-ROM. 1993-1996 Microsoft. Kilgore, Kathryn. Rituals of Self-Hatred, Arts of Survival. VLS. No. 3, December 1981. P.22, 30