艾德里安娜.里奇的诗作《生锈的遗产》主张诗歌与政治社会背景相联系。在她的眼里,个人与政治是相互交织、密不可分的。诗歌表达了里奇对20世纪美国政治腐败的愤怒和对曾经强有力的政治原则退变的感伤。她希冀即使在受压制和动乱的政治环境中,个人的情绪反应也能为积极的改变带来希望。 Adriana Ricci’s poet Rusty Legacy claims that poetry is linked to a political-social context. In her eyes, personal and political are intertwined and inseparable. Poetry expresses Rich’s anger at the political corruption in the United States in the twentieth century and the sentimentality of a once powerful political principle. She hoped that even in the oppressed and unrest political environment, personal emotional response can also bring hope for positive change.