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ring which could have been a beautiful gift for her seems like a burden to her. She has faced
so many difficulties in her married life that the little ring is described as a heavy band on her
trembling fingers. This means that the ring is associated with some bad experiences in the
form of torture she has faced because of her husband’s dominating behaviour.
Literary device:
Rhyme scheme: aabb
Alliteration: ‘f’ sound is repeated in finger fluttering.
METAPHOR-Fingers fluttering
THIRD STANZA
When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie
Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.
The tigers in the panel that she made
Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid.
The poet says that one can easily sense aunt’s desire for freedom and fearlessness through
her design of tigers. Further she says that it is not possible for aunt to achieve this freedom
during her lifetime. She will attain it only after her death but here also the irony of her life is
that still, she will be tied up with shackles in the form of her husband’s wedding ring. The ring
was the sole proof of the tortures which she had faced from her husband. On the other hand,
there are the tigers designed by Aunt Jennifer which will always depict her desire of living a
fearless life by jumping proudly and bravely on the piece of cloth.
Literary devices
Rhyme scheme: aabb
Ringed-Pun,Metaphor
Prancing proud- Alliteration:
