Abstract
This paper would: A. define the notion of conflict in and around the life and work of Adrienne Rich; B. seek to identify its roots; and C. outline her attempts to resolve the conflict via declaration of her sexuality. It is easy to imagine that there would be multiple conflicts depicted in the poetry of Adrienne Rich. However, the politico-sexual aspect of lesbianism is being focussed upon here for a nuanced study. Rich was one of the towering literary figures of the 20th century and located herself at the intersections of race, gender, queerness, colour and anti-semitist conflicts. Almost entire corpus of her work came out of these strifes and frictions. Her work is a cauldron of the interface of the personal and the public. She harvests her personal conflicts to create poetry of vision, of activism, of revolutionary and radical feminism and lesbian feminism.
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