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poe and womens rights

But regardless of the two very different beliefs of Poe and Dickinson, Poe's bitter yet empowering hopefulness and Dickinson's forever powerless, they are connected in representing the multiple perspectives of women in their time. More specifically, the beginning of the women's rights movement, marked by Elizabeth Cary Stanton's 1848 Seneca Falls convention, is an example of a cultural phenomenon that provides a deeper analysis of both Dickinson and Poe's selected poetry in their relation to women. Dickinson's "My Life had stood a loaded gun" is arguably a direct response to the lack of equal rights of women to men argued against by Stanton in her "Declaration of Sentiments" written in 1849. Whereas Poe's yearn for happiness in a hopeless world in "Annabel Lee" is arguably a reflection of the yearn for equality argued at the 1848 Seneca Falls convention by women. .
             Men once considered it an outlandish idea that women should live equally to them. As such, the women of 19th century America had very few rights and were limited by the boundaries marked by the "cult of domesticity." In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that the time had come for women's wrongs to be laid before the public. Women were subjected to live in a world of patriarchal forces where they were granted very few rights in American politics and society. Most importantly they lacked the freedom to vote, a right that Stanton believed most necessary for women. She understood that the power to make the laws was the right through which all other rights could be secured (Eisenberg). The difficulty lay however in acquiring political and social equality in a world where women were nearly hopeless. But empowered by the wish for the equality of American women and the results of such equality, she organized a convention that would discuss the social, civil, religious condition and rights of women.
            


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