Elizabeth Cady Stanton discusses the importance of rights for women so that they may go through life independently. Compare this speech (The Solitude of Self) to the poem that we read yesterday (Verses Written by a Young Lady, on
Women Born to be Controll'd). How have women been forced to rely on men in the past? How would allowing women
to have their independence give them greater control over their lives? How do you think the anonymous poet would
react to the ideas expressed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in her speech?