"Wild nights-Wild night!"
The poem runs away from gendered pronouns. Dickinson does not explicitly identify what genders are addressed in the poem but she is very saddle and lets the reader decide what gender the poem is talking about. Also, the comment about the idea of "needing a guide", or that the person (talked about in the poem) needs some sort of direction/guided into this night makes me think about dependence. The idea of "why Dickinson would want to be lost at sea" made me think about The Awakening and the meaning of the sea. It meant freedom, inmencity; something that Edna could escape to, to be by herself and do as she liked without being judged. This idea is also present in Dickinson poem, the idea of being lost in intensity/immensity but having the capacity to choose in what direction to move. The idea that Dickinson is "restricting herself" and "escaping" the desire, also could be linked to the idea of restraining ones real feeling and wishes because of the role in society woman held.
"She rose to His requirement"
Amplitude and awe, as the pearl and the weeds in the sea, are things that you cannot "look at the surface and know where they are, like marriage". So, with his, the speaker is saying that you cannot exactly know what the act of marriage is bringing you but you will never know if you don't look at the details. Some of it will be unknown. The sea to Dickinson might extend to her own life, what "Dickinson experiences between herself and the outside world that is not interior and private. The sea night be her own consciouncenes-not explicit". This really made me think about this common idea that woman and people in general should submerge their feelings and private life because some of it might be inappropriate or looked down upon by societal rules. This later is expressed by one of the speakers as the "repressing" presence and power of men ("the sea is male"). This repression is seen without all these poems.
"Gender tragedy, limitation of her own form and of her gender". This is the key to what happens to woman in the nineteen century. They are dying to go express their feelings and go outside of the societal norms but they restrain themselves most of the time because they realize they have no use or that they cannot really let go of what their roles are. Marriage makes them slaves to their role as woman, not only to their husband.
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