At the same time, we also glimpse a soul crushed by loneliness who wonders if it would have been easier to get married and allow herself to give up her dreams as a woman writer. In “My Life Left – A Loaded Gun,” we see a woman who feels trapped. A woman who is completely dependent on a man to do everything. It is simply used as a tool. We see a woman exploding with violent thoughts, but still knowing that she is still a slave who respects her master's wishes. It is these two poems that really bring women's suffrage into focus in the 1800s. This was a time when women just wanted to be recognized but were afraid to show what they could really do. Yet, it was this world ruled by men like her father that made Emily Dickinson's poetry what it is today. Without this, he might have published his poetry sooner and allowed society to judge it based on it, influencing his entire life's work. Also, keep in mind that although this world seems distant and hard to believe in other places in the world, society is still run much like New England in 1850, if not worse. Countries like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Indonesia are places where women's potential is waiting to explode
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