A Study Guide for Adrienne Rich's "Ghost of a Chance"
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Ghost of a Chance
Adrienne Rich
1962
Introduction
Ghost of a Chance
was first published by Adrienne Rich in her 1963 collection Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law and can also be found in the Norton Critical Edition Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (1993). Like the collection in which it appears, Ghost of a Chance
represents that moment when Rich's poetic subject turned from the masculine universal that she had been taught was the ideal subject to the specific experiences of living as an intelligent, artistic, politically engaged woman. It is one of her last poems to feature a male persona, and the imagery of the poem in which a person striving for intellectual life is dragged back into the undertow of expectation mirrors the subjects Rich was wrestling with during that time. Having won major awards for her first two books of poetry, Rich described the shock with which she realized that after her marriage she was expected to abandon her career and to devote herself to her children and to her husband's career. Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law and Ghost of a Chance
represent the moment when she began to interrogate the definitions of masculine and feminine and how those archetypes functioned in society.
This is the central question of all of her subsequent work, and this poem and indeed much of the collection demonstrate the work of a poet at the cusp of discovering the true subject of her life's work. Adrienne Rich has had one of the longest careers in American literary history. She published her first book in 1951 and continues to publish into her eighties. She is equally as well known for her political activism in the cause of peace and social justice as she is for her pioneering writings, in both poetry and prose, in modern feminism.
Author Biography
Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 16, 1929, to Helen and Arnold Rice Rich. Her mother had been a concert pianist, and her father was a doctor and pathologist at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. Her parents were ambitious about Rich's future, and she excelled at school, eventually enrolling at Radcliffe College in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1951, the year she graduated from Radcliffe, W. H. Auden awarded Rich the prestigious Yale Younger Poets Prize for her first collection, A Change of World. His citation that the poems were neatly and modestly dressed, speak quietly but do not mumble, respect their elders but are not cowed by them
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