FEMINIST+IN+SHE+ROSE+TO+HIS+REQUIREMENT

SHE rose to his requirement

**She rose to his requirement, dropped** **the play things of her life** **to take on honorable work** **of woman and of wife.** **if aught she missed im her new day** **of amlitude, or awe.** **of first prospective, or the gold** **in using wore away,** **it lay unmentioned, as the sea** **develops pearl and weed,** **but only to himself is known** **the fathoms the aside**

This poem contains a strong view of how women were like in Emily Dickinson’s time. The poem started out as describing what happens when a woman falls in love with a man and she ends up giving up everything in order for him to be happy. The title of this poem itself is a depiction of the image of man being more dominated in the relationship. “She rose in his requirement” provides that fact that women back then were very obedient to their male figure. Women were required to fit in the standard requirements for marriage. “Dropped the playthings of her life to take the honorable work of woman and of wife.” She’s giving up everything she considers fun things in her life and take on the responsibility that society set for being a wife. The last three lines suggest the fact that she does not want to tell her husband about her thoughts of missing the past but yet she trusts her husband that he knows what he’s doing. To a feminist’s eyes, this woman is not seeking to be heard but yet she is suppressing her feelings by attempting to tell herself that her husband knows and that following him is best. The feminist views refer to the movement aimed at establishing equal social and personal opportunities and political rights for women. This poem obviously showed the inequality between male and female back in Emily’s time; where a woman must give up her rights/freedom to satisfy a man’s needs.