Poetry Essay

COMPARISON OF LOVE RELATIONSHIP

Living in Sin analysis

Adrienne Rich's poem “Living in Sin” is a free verse poem about a woman's fairy tale dream of marriage versus the truth of the sin of not adoring each other. The subject of the poem is a woman beginning a life of wish and joyfulness in a flawless relationship only to discover the factual truth of the relationship. The speaker of the poem observes the woman's life as miserable and boring. In deduction, Living in Sin tints a image of a woman eventually recognizing that her marriage is not a fairy tale ending. (Rich, ...