Being a Woman and a Poet in the 19th Century: A comparative analysis of Emily Dickinson and Rosalía de Castro

Abstract

[Abstract] This paper revolves around the comparative analysis of the writings of Emily Dickinson and Rosalía de Castro, regarding their thoughts on the role of women within society and their view on the process of literary creation. First, we will introduce our methodology and justification for the undertaking of this work, in order to, then, study the way in which both authors, as daughters of the society in which they came to live, adapted and adopted the existing metre and the literary themes into their compositions. Subsequently, we will focus on the role of women as wives, which brings us to study the views of Dickinson and Castro on love, marriage and female sexuality. After this, we will pay attention to how they conceived the process of literary creation and what their stance was on the publication of their writings. Lastly, we will present the ideas and afterthoughts to which we have arrived.