Abstract
This article reexamines in detail the poem "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", 1970, written by the American poet Adrienne Rich (1929-2012), and re-confirms it embodies the most important changing point in her career as a female poet. Here we clarify what is her goals as an American woman and American female poet, and how the poem suggests a new departure as a female poet, analyzing the work and her biographical facts, especially the relationship with her husband, and some possibilities that could be guessed in detail. As a result, we will make sure she challenged, and confronted the present American situation of patriarchy and male-centered, male-dominated society.
