Víctor Salceda Professor. Asunción Lopez Varela Literary Criticism 20 March 2012 “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun – ” Feminist Analysis. This poem was written by the American poet Emily Dickinson around the year 1863. It is probably one of the most complex of all Dickinson’s poems because it does not have a single coherent and satisfactory interpretation. This is due to the fact that it exemplifies her technique of the ‘omitted centre’‚ a device by which the author omits information
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In Theo Padnos’ memoir‚ My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun: Adolescents at the Apocalypse: A Teacher’s Notes‚ he recounts his journey in discovering his career choice and his adventures of being a part-time teacher in a county prison. Discussing the variety of prisoners that came in and out of the Woodstock jail‚ Padnos reveals his relations with the prisoners. Padnos starts off describing the tediousness of the work in graduate school and how the‚ once fun‚ aspects of analyzing text no longer appealed
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poem I will try to analyze is My Life Had Stood—A Loaded Gun‚ or number 754. I find this to be one of her most difficult poems to decode. However‚ I find the images fascinating and the last stanza very confusing but intriguing. What I first thought the poem was about and what I finally came to a conclusion on are two completely different thoughts. Through answering questions on the poem’s literary elements‚ thorough analysis of the words‚ and rewriting the poem in my own words‚ I came to the conclusion
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these authors wrote interesting and articulate academic articles on the same poem by Dickinson‚ “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun”. In his essay Spiritual Action in “ My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun” Tripp considers “My life had stood – a Loaded Gun” to be one of Dickinson’s most complex and inventive poems. He even goes so far as to proclaim that “the form behind the many profiles of ‘My Life’ is the poets spiritual awakening” (Tripp 282). Tripp takes into consideration the distinctive of
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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 stooda Loaded Gun--" This line is a metaphor. Dickinson juxtapose her life to a
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In “My Life had stood -a loaded gun-” of Emily Dickinson’s tale about a gun and his master‚ we learn a rather ambiguous way in which an impious person‚ even a complete atheist‚ has the capability and necessary talents‚ to become a devoted and ecclesiastical individual‚ when and if God decides it is that person’s moment to become his mediator disciple towards mankind. The individual’s unused deftness is depicted as the “Loaded Gun” before “the Owner passed-identified- and carried Me away”‚ which is
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In the poem 764 of The Norton Anthology which starts "My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -" (line 1)‚ Emily Dickinson takes on the role of a married woman of the nineteenth century whose husband owns and completely controls her. The woman‚ whose voice Dickinson wrote from‚ reflects on the importance of her husband ’s life to hers and her dependency on him being there to direct her life. Dickinson never married and lived a secluded life in her family ’s home‚ only ever leaving the house for one year
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needed a lot of life insurance‚ I needed a vacation‚ I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat‚ a hat and a gun." 3. Antithesis The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases. "The more acute the experience‚ the less articulate its expression." 4. Apostrophe Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing‚ some abstract quality‚ an inanimate object‚ or a nonexistent character. "Blue Moon‚ you saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart
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FIGURE OF SPEECH : A mode of expression in which words are used out of their literal meaning or out of their ordinary use in order to add beauty or emotional intensity or to transfer the poet’s sense impressions by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning familiar to the reader. Some important figures of speech are: simile‚ metaphor‚ personification‚ hyperbole and symbol. Adjunction: Adjunction refers to a clause or a phrase‚ usually a verb‚ that is added at the beginning
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A figure of speech is the use of a word or words diverging from its usual meaning. It can also be a special repetition‚ arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning‚ or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it‚ as in idiom‚ metaphor‚ simile‚ hyperbole‚ or personification. Figures of speech often provide emphasis‚ freshness of expression‚ or clarity. However‚ clarity may also suffer from their use‚ as any figure of speech introduces an ambiguity
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