Emily Dickinson's poem is an allegory, which on the symbolic level, the "Gun" represents the poet and the "Master" represents the person or soul mate that was meant to be the "poet". The speaker in the poem is clearly the "Gun" this is clear in the second stanza when the speaker says "And every time I speak for Him--/ The Mountains straight reply" "I" stands for the "Gun". This is also a personification because the "Gun" is being attributed human traits. The poem begins "My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun--" This line is a metaphor. Dickinson juxtapose her life to a "Loaded Gun" what gives the impression that the speaker had the power to control because guns are object used either to express authority or command, and again hints the theme of the poem which is "power". The poem is told in lyrical form. The tone of this poem is one of passion this is established in the fist stanza where the speaker says "My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun--/ In Corners--" the word corners gives the......

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Title: Emily Dickinson's My Life Had Stood-- A Loaded Gun
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