2) “Wild Nights–Wild Nights” is a poem that I can picture as one of the best nights in a life without technology or social media. This poem is clearly about a night with a loved one, spent in the outdoors. Dickinson speaks about how she doesn’t want to follow a direction–she doesn’t believe in following a compass or a map. She wants to simply just ride with her feelings and experience joy without being told that there is a right way to do so, or that there are complications in love. She simply wants to put her heart above her feelings, as she is aimlessly rowing in the sea, but she is following the direction of her heart. This is very relatable–it’s exactly how those in love approach life. They put their feelings above their reasoning, and take risks without thinking of what may happen to their dismay. This risk taking occurs when people are blinded with what seems to be more beautiful and attractive to the eye, instead of what may actually keep one safe from getting hurt. Although wild nights are supposed to be a luxury, clearly a wild night of this sort is dangerous to the human heart– it is way to prone to getting hurt if it makes reasoning go away.

3) 1) I was extremely into “Manifesto of Futurist Women.” It was a refreshing difference from Wollstonecraft’s feminist, extreme views. It illustrated how men have no reason to think they are more superior than women, and it gives a special type of importance to women who are aggressive and sort of wild. It intrigues me how a prostitute is seen in a better light than a nurse, because a prostitute’s job is to be dominant, whereas a nurse provides a service for an injured man. I love this way of thought in this time period–it makes me really think about how women have always felt as though they are only worthy of a man’s approval, up until this point in time. I believe that anyone speaking out for women’s rights and the superior characteristics of a woman is noteworthy and a woman that is truly worth celebrating. I absolutely love how this passage ends off with the idealism of a woman who must be a dominating, aggressive leader. It is nice to hear someone say that women need to be followed, since from her, men are born. However, I am confused about the fact that she said, in the beginning, that men and women are created equal. Towards the end, she wants women to assert their dominance over men–this is contradictory but I believe that her topic change is just a human thought development. I believe that as people start to think that they deserve better treatment, their thought processes lead them to finally assert that they are even better than they thought. Power is overbearing and addictive.

3) 2) I believe that women should be able to get equal pay in the office. There is no reason that men and women should be paid differently for performing the same exact tasks. We live in 2017–there is not one thing that a man can do that a woman cannot do. We are fools to allow ourselves to live in a society in which men have dominated. We have been living with this glass ceiling for decades at the very least. Think about how women have to leave their children at home, along with motherly responsibilities in order to maintain a job. They are forced to sometimes leave their children with nannies who don’t truly care for their kids. Because of this sacrifice, They should be paid way more than men. They are much more deserving.

3) 3) My manifesto mirrors the image portrayed in “Manifesto of Futurist Women.” In this manifesto, I first analyze that women and men are created equally and capable of doing the same things. I dismiss equality by saying that the glass ceiling needs to end, and then I conclude that women should be paid more than men. I conclude that women are more superior and important than men. This is just like the manifesto I read and analyzed. A problem is pointed out, equality is acknowledged, and then eventually, it’s realized that equality isn’t enough–just superiority is.