When I first read this play I had to read it again. I really don't think it's a relationship with a Husband and Wife. I think it's more of a fling. Sarah Ann Wilder speak about Dickenson came to realize the role of a wife and the way Sarah words it make sit seem like Dickenson didn't want to play a role as a wife and in her poem a line shows an example "Done with the Compass - Done with the chart!" I take that quote as she's done following expectations of how a wife or lover should be. She wants to be her own person and make her own rules on how to love someone.
When reading Wild Nights, I picture a young woman experiencing love and an affair and giving into pure desires. "Wild nights should be our luxury!" Nothing can stop her desires and nor does she want to end this fling and that her feelings won't change "Futile - the Winds - To a Heart in port."
I believe this poem isn't just about a sexual encounter. I think it's her arguement, her will not be molded into something she doesn't want to become. She doesn't just want to be the good wife like in A Doll House who does what is expected of her but does what she feels passionate about and does what she rules as love and what a wife should do.
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