For the past few decades the goal of feminism has been to achieve equal rights for women. It began with the efforts of Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton who laid the frame for the Women's Suffrage Movement and later movements to come.

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For the past few decades the goal of feminism has been to achieve equal rights for women. It began with the efforts of Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton who laid the frame for the Women's Suffrage Movement and later movements to come. They set out to clear the board of patriarchal domination. Since women were not permitted to attend the World Anti-Slavery convention, Mott and Stanton organized the first women's rights convention, Seneca Falls, in 1848 (56).

It is this key event, which marks the initial effort toward achieving equal rights for women. Equal status for women was thought to be against the will of God during the nineteenth century. This accounts for the small fraction of women writers recognized during this era. Of this number, a young woman by the name of Emily Elizabeth Dickinson is considered to be the most distinguished. Emily Dickinson's, "She Rose to His Requirements," provides a window into the way nineteenth century culture constructed and understood concepts such as gender, marriage and sexual personae. The majority of Dickinson's poetry is based on death, love and eternity. Based on the context of the poem, "She Rose to His Requirements," we will examine