Question

What does the title of the poem suggest to you? Are you reminded of other poems on tigers?

Answer 1

The title, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers", suggests that the poem is about Aunt Jennifer's knitted tigers that, with their chivalric, ferocious, bright and carefree attitude, become an alternate world of her creation. The tigers are the only means of freedom in her life, which is otherwise burdened by fear and struggles of the married life.The poet highlights the suppressed desire of a woman that finds way to express her feelings of liberation in the shapes of tigers.She beholds herself as a tiger with tremendous strength, but is unable to exercise it due to male chauvenism.
There are many other poems written about tigers.A few of them are mentioned below.
"The Tiger" by William Blake
"Tiger" by Alec Derwent Hope
"Tiger Drinking at Forest Pool" by Ruth Sophia Padel