In such a male dominated society, women are often governed by such dictatorship, confined to certain expectation set by male standards. This can be seen in Emily Dickinson poem, “They shut me up in Prose,” where she introduces us to a world of inequality and uncertainty. Inequality in how it silences opposing views of the social norm, the voiceless stays voiceless. Uncertainty in how if things will ever change. Which is expressed in her other poem “I dwell in Possibility,” where the present and future seem to be blurred and time seems to not exist all together. These two aspects of inequality and uncertainty is what Dickinson addresses as she uses unconventional means of language to get her message across. Such as with the case of her poem,
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The closet symbolises the subjugation of female roles in society. She feels that she has no voice, no freedom of speech, no power of free will, in a country that is suppose to represent “freedom and justice for all.” Dickinson uses the dashes, as a way to break these injustices as she sees fit. The dashes serve to break up the rhythmical pattern of the text entirely, destroying the social norm of what a proper poem should be. This is her way of jumbling the order of how things are “suppose to be”, what is deem to be acceptable to what’s not. To Dickinson’s society, poetry is upheld to a certain standard. Things are expected to sound a certain way, follow a certain format, and should be acceptable to normal standards. But to Dickinson, poems are a place to escape these confinement. An upheaval to the social norm. A place where anything and everything goes, where nothing is too absurd or too …show more content…
In her poem, “I dwell in Possibility-/ A fairer House than Prose-/ More numerous of Windows-/ Superior-for Doors- (Dickinson 466). Dickinson meticulously construct the entitled envisionment of her hopes and dreams in a blueprint of a mental construct of a house. A “fairer house than prose (Dickinson 466),” reveals her urge to seek a foreseeable future for society to live in as a whole. Her possibility is signified by the house itself, grounded to the very soil of the earth. Which can be expanded to represent the very earth itself as the house, Dickinson has envisioned all along. Just like a house, it has to be built of a solid foundation for which it stands, or it will not stand at all and crumble to the very rubble of which it came from. If we only focus on the appearance of our society, and ignore the social inequality that reigns upon from the very inside. How can we expect to live as equals. This was what Dickinson was trying to get people to see, “Visitors-the fairest- (Dickinson 466),” a place where race, nationality, or religion do not serve as a dividend. But rather serve to unite one another, a commonality that bonds society
The closet symbolises the subjugation of female roles in society. She feels that she has no voice, no freedom of speech, no power of free will, in a country that is suppose to represent “freedom and justice for all.” Dickinson uses the dashes, as a way to break these injustices as she sees fit. The dashes serve to break up the rhythmical pattern of the text entirely, destroying the social norm of what a proper poem should be. This is her way of jumbling the order of how things are “suppose to be”, what is deem to be acceptable to what’s not. To Dickinson’s society, poetry is upheld to a certain standard. Things are expected to sound a certain way, follow a certain format, and should be acceptable to normal standards. But to Dickinson, poems are a place to escape these confinement. An upheaval to the social norm. A place where anything and everything goes, where nothing is too absurd or too …show more content…
In her poem, “I dwell in Possibility-/ A fairer House than Prose-/ More numerous of Windows-/ Superior-for Doors- (Dickinson 466). Dickinson meticulously construct the entitled envisionment of her hopes and dreams in a blueprint of a mental construct of a house. A “fairer house than prose (Dickinson 466),” reveals her urge to seek a foreseeable future for society to live in as a whole. Her possibility is signified by the house itself, grounded to the very soil of the earth. Which can be expanded to represent the very earth itself as the house, Dickinson has envisioned all along. Just like a house, it has to be built of a solid foundation for which it stands, or it will not stand at all and crumble to the very rubble of which it came from. If we only focus on the appearance of our society, and ignore the social inequality that reigns upon from the very inside. How can we expect to live as equals. This was what Dickinson was trying to get people to see, “Visitors-the fairest- (Dickinson 466),” a place where race, nationality, or religion do not serve as a dividend. But rather serve to unite one another, a commonality that bonds society