Women's changing role to face males' dominance in adrienne rich's poetry.

Abstract EN

This paper aims at shedding light on the way Adrienne Rich, the prominent American poet in both the 20^th century and the beginning of the 21^st century, used her poetry to clarify the changes that occurred throughout her life as a woman.

These changes coincided with the shifts which happened in the life of women all over the world at that time, and that reflected females' quest for affirming their identity in their masculine-dominated societies.

Rich embraced the ideas related to lesbianism and feminism and made herself an ardent activist in these two movements.

This was a way of resisting the dominance of males in life.

She also called for all women's solidarity in the face of the oppression inflicted on them by men.

Rich used her poetry in a confessional way to express all these ideas and defend her determination to live as a lesbian through her life