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The purpose of this study is to examine the poems of Adrienne Rich in terms of the politics of sense and performativity. The value of her poetry is not merely a participatory voice to emphasize the rights of the lesbian, but rather to explore the value of democracy by linking the discourse within the poet’s private sphere with public social issues. Rich’s political consciousness is closely related to the politics of the sense of Jacques Rancière and deeply connected with Judith Butler’s performative subject, which takes an important position in the modern gender concept. The physical love of the lesbian, which Rich reveals frankly in her poems, can contribute to restructuring the female subject and realizing the politics of sense in the real world. Moreover she presents the readers with aspects of the lesbian life that are excluded, expelled, or deleted, while portraying the sexual acts as they are. Through such a process, she contributes to establishing the political subject of the lesbians. The value of her lesbianism, she says, is the most radical way to crack the patriarchal system of masculinity and advocate genuine freedom and rights for women. I examine how the process of reconfiguration of female subject and the politics of sense work through the poetry of Rich, and try to reveal the hidden contradiction of democratic society and criticize her poetic methodology to overcome them.
