Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.
They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.
Aunt Jennifer's fingers fluttering through her wool
Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.
The use of the word “men” here, instead of something more gender-ambiguous like “hunters” or plainly “people,” is no accident.  This poem is about women’s oppression at the hands of the patriarchy.  The fact that Aunt Jennifer’s tigers are  unafraid  of the men stalking them is significant because they represent the boldness that Aunt Jennifer (and women in general in 1951, when the poem was written) wishes she could express.
Aunt Jennifers Tigers