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Traditionally writing has been considered as the work of men because only men have occupied this area for a long time, while women have been recognized as the objects of their literature rather than independent and creative creatures. Although this is true in all the genres of literature, poetry and drama have been considered more difficult than the novel for the women writers to challenge. Emily Dickinson and Susan Glaspell are two women writers, who tried to recover their power as independent human beings through the act of writing poems and dramas respectively. They lived in the periods when women writers produced their works anonymously or in pseudonyms because the social prejudice against women writers were so strong. In almost all areas, social space was blocked completely for women; home was the only space given. But the dual-natured home was too weak to provide women any chances to realize their own identities. Dickinson and Glaspell emphasized that women could recover their own creative and independent power through writing. They both rejected their works to be subjected to the formulated patterns of the patriarchal culture. They both attempted to express freely instead of following traditional forms of the literature of their ages. After all, these two women writers proved that they could create new stories of their own through the pens in their hands beyond the boundaries of the patriarchal culture.