A Feminist Perspective On Emily Dickinson’s Poem #271 “A Solemn Thing—it was—I said”

Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson became a will known poet that writes of things that affect her perspective on life. Her poems are so truthful and so insightful because most of her poems are about what she encounters. She wrote some poems based on her point of view of things that influenced her life. Her poetry writings seems like journals because the poem “A Solemn Thing- -it was- -I said” is a bit like a story of what was happening at the time when she wrote that poem. The poem also focuses on her role in life, a woman less than a man, a statue that she is condemned to live as a woman in society. In the poem “A Solemn Thing- -it was- -I said” there would be a feeling a disappointment and sexist issues to a feminist, due to the fact that the poem reflects the status of a woman being “small” (4.16). Look, reading and understanding the poem from a feminist perspective, the result of seeing that Emily Dickinson’s life was a strategy and a creation that...