Emily Dickinson's "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass"
             A long time ago, before women had many of the rights that they do now, an author wrote a series of poems that shocked the public. This poem startled the readers when they found out that the author of this poem was a woman. At the time that "986" was written women were supposed to remain abstinent for the man who was to marry them when they were older. When Emily wrote this poem she was a virgin; she even wore white clothes. The poem "986" utilizes Freudian imagery and stages of development to dramatize a female perspective on sexuality.
             When you read this poem for the first time it is easily noticeable the sexual content that is provided for the reader to interpret. Take the first stanza,
             When looking at the first stanza the narrator is stating that the "Fellow" is a penis, and that you might or might not have met it, or had an encounter with a penis. Also, in imagery male genitalia is signified by animate creatures. Then at the end of the stanza the narrator states that something is noticed suddenly, and that is in the second stanza.
             Since the Narrator has introduced you to the male organ, it is only fitting that she does the same for the female. The example of this is in the fifth line, first line of the second stanza, when it says, "The Grass divides as with a Comb--." If you were to visualize looking at the clitoris, the pubic hair sometimes tends to divide at the opening, as if it were to be brushed with a comb. Then the poem goes into saying that a "spotted shaft," penis, is seen and " . . .closes at your feet/ And opens further
             on--"(7-8). Here it is say that for the woman, if looking down on the penis it disappears
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