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This thesis aims to examine the poems of Adrienne Rich, who occupies a unique position in the history of modern American poetry, from the perspective of “disgust and ethical violence.” Based on this topic, I examine the political aspects of disgust in her poems that Martha Nussbaum discusses to inspect disgust and shame in relation to the philosophy of law. Moreover, I also research the verbal performance in which Judith Butler keenly inspects excitable speech as an offensive language. Disgust and ethical violence operate unconsciously against minorities, people of color, the handicapped, and the poor in modern society. Through Rich’s poems, I would like to suggest a way to overcome the affect of hate toward women or men. Therefore I explore her anguish and poetic strategies to resist the disgust that the subject projects toward others with prejudice against the difference in gender, class, and race that prevail in American society.
