디킨슨(Emily Dickinson)의 시에 나타난 여성 정체성 탐구의 항해

Emily Dickinson’s Sailing for Her feminine Identity

Many of Emily Dickinson’s works are based on the femininity demanded by the patriarchal society of her time. However, the female speakers in her work react to the suppression of this dominant ideology in two opposite ways of conformity and negation. While critics including Vivian Pollak and B.A. Clarke Mossberg attributed these responses to external factors such as patriarchal family relationship, religion or social culture, James Dickey argued that such approach was excessively focused on such factors, and thus neglected the literary analysis of Dickinson’s works and the female speakers within. Therefore, this study aims to observe the conflicts experienced by Dickinson originating from the gender roles imposed by the patriarchal society of her times by analyzing in detail the feminine image and the voice of the female speaker in her works. And based on this, it will prove that the opposite reactions of the female speaker stem from the dialectic process of self-denial and establishment of Dickinson’s ego originating from exploration of her unique identity.