Kara BennettProfessor HelmersENG 2006/28/2020Writing About PoetryMany of the poems covered in this week’s poetry unit had many different approachesand attitudes. This made them very different from one another but the similarities the readerswere able to detect in the readings were that each speaker had a voice they wanted heard.Dickenson wanted gender equality, Stevens wanted his voice heard that poetry was powerful,and Gluck wanted the readers to know how powerful women can be and how to appropriatelyuse their power. These speakers used their voices, attitudes, and approaches to sway theiraudience.Emily Dickinson’s speaker in her poemThey shut me up in prosespoke of freedom.Freedom as a woman in this time period this was written in, 1862, was unheard of. She wantedto convey this in the voice of a small girl and the struggles she faced as a little girl in this time.“As when a little GirlThey put me in the Closet —Because they liked me ‘still’ —,” (175).Dickenson is showing the struggles of a girl in the society she lives in. Her attitude or approachof this poem is her deep wants to do things a girl is not supposed to do. She wanted freedomand for her time, the audience must assume that was not the right mindset for a girl of hertime. Dickinson’s speaker was well ahead of her time and would have been seen as a
