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Emily Dickinson’s I’m ‘Wife’—I’ve Finished That— is a short but remarkably complex poem about marriage, female identity, social roles and the psychological transition from girlhood to womanhood. The speaker announces that she has become a “Wife” and therefore has “finished” an earlier state of existence. At first, marriage appears to be presented as a higher, safer and more comfortable condition. The speaker even declares, “I’m Czar”, suggesting power, elevation and social recognition. Yet the p...