Contemporary female poets are a very powerful group of female poets who show important events and issues of society with their poems. Contemporary female poets usually all have an underlying theme involving politics, women's rights, life events and sexuality. Contemporary means living or occurring at the same time and some contemporary poets are Adrienne Rich, Nikki Giovanni, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Adrienne Rich, Nikki Giovanni, and Gwendolyn Brooks were all writing in the late 1900s. The women's rights movement and the civil rights movement were two events that occurred in the late 1900s. These two movements were heavily incorporated into the life of Brooks, Rich and John and influenced their writings. Each of these women expresses their personal feelings about political issues in their poems, which makes politics the theme of their work. The theme of the work of these three women concerns different aspects of politics, such as women's emancipation, women's rights and racial pride. "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" by Adrienne Rich, "Nikki-Rosa" by Nikki Giovanni and "The Mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks are the three poems that each represent the theme of politics regarding women's rights and empowerment and racial pride . “Aunt Jennifer's Tigers” is a perfect example of Adrienne's use of writing to address issues of women's oppression and the need for women's liberation from a male-dominated world. “Aunt Jennifer's Tigers” by Adrienne Rich is about a woman, Aunt Jennifer, who struggles to accept the indignities of her daily life. In the poem where Aunt Jennifer got married it can be inferred that she became unhappy and had to submit to her husband. The second verse, “The huge weight of Uncle's wedding ring/ Weighs heavily on Aunt Jennifer's hand,” suggests the negative emotional effect that Uncle, Jennifer's husband, is having on Jennifer. Symbolically, the “massif