Symbolic Images: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

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June 16, 2016

 

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The majority of her work relies heavily on a different type of imagery ? symbolism. One of the poems where this symbolism is most evident is "My Life Had Stood ? A Loaded Gun." This poem is obviously based around a strong metaphoric image, as Dickinson is comparing herself to a gun belonging to someone else...
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In the poem, she uses the gun as a symbol to show her role in the patriarchal society she lived in. The first stanza shows this feeling: My Life had stood ? a Loaded Gun ? In Corners ? till a Day The Owner passed ? identified ? And carried me away ? In this stanza, Dickinson never explicitly mentions the owner to be a man, but as women didn't use guns in those times, it is understood that the owner would be male, which she does clarify later in the poem...
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