Rich’s poetry is dazzling and innovative in its own right – but she made her poetry political and personal and the stories she told were the stories of a changing generation on the cusp of freedom. Gifted and brave, Rich wrote poetry that went beyond the arts, it helped change the world for the better. (Marisa Bate) Identified as one of the leading American poets, Rich soared to fame with the publication of her second major volume of poetry titled “Diving into the Wreck” in 1973 which also won her the National Book Award in 1974. In the poem, Rich portrays a diver who gets equipped with the sea-diving tools and immerses into the deep sea to explore the remnants of an old ship at the bottom of the sea. The diver’s journey is both physical and psychological as it attempts to explicate the unexplored realms of the old schooner and the inexplicable psyche of the diver as well.  Though the poet wants women’s voices to be heard in ‘the man’s world’, she emphasizes on the need for the human liberation from the confined gender roles and fixed identities through the portrayal of the androgynous diver in the poem. While exploring the personal and political realms of life, Rich addresses the entire civilization which must be freed from the inequitable believes regarding gender.