Throughout her poems on hunger, Emily Dickinson describes an anorexic body to show the female speaker`s rebellion against the patriarchal authority. Dickinson`s depictions of the female speaker`s `hunger`, and `self-starvation` signify the enormous inner power of female body; the threatening voice of the anorecxic body mocks at the patriarchal concept of femininity in America of the nineteenth century. Describing the renunciation of bodily pleasure through hunger, Dickinson explores the power of renunciation; in her poetry, the speaker enjoys the pleasure of deprivation, rather than lamenting her privation. Dickinson`s speaker responds to a deprivation imposed by herself; the pain of self-deprivation is justified by moments of infinite joy. Further, the speaker`s experience of deprivation reflects her attempt to maintain self-sustenance. Dickinson stresses that the anorexic self-destructive relation to the body is not simply negative, since it signifies the rejuvenation of some of unrepresented experience and desires. More significantly, for the speaker, phobias about food that enable the self to order its experience represent the vital force for life-enchancing power. Dickinson emphasizes that the denial of desire for food gives the power of sustaining over the starvation. The anorexic speaker`s self-starvation could be understood as an active resistance of patriarchal expectation. Viewed from the patriarchal notion of feminine anorexia, the anorexic body is supposed to remain mute and submissive, symbolizing the feminine ideal of slim body in patriarchy. However, Dickinson describes that the speaker`s self-denial of desire and its denial. In so doing, Dickinson`s anorexic body appears threatening to the patriarchy, since this body of feminine privation represents the body of feminine abundance, filled with inexhaustible pleasure.