... . Although of the same species, men and women are not the same gender, and therefore will express themselves very differently in writing. Rich strongly believes though, that women such as Sappho, Christina Rossetti, and Emily Dickenson wrote as equals to men. Rich "wanted women poets to be the equals of men, and to be equal was still confused with sounding the ... ...

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... to participate successfully in more respectable occupations, such as writing. Many of these women concentrated on those matters that most affected them, devoting themselves to their own sex. For example Sappho, a seventh-century poetess, dedicated many of her love-songs to other woman and girls. In addition, Erinna, a fourth-century poetess, is famous for a poem she wrote in memory of her ... ...

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