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754 (My Life had stood——a Loaded Gun——)
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754 (My Life had stood——a Loaded Gun——)
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Poem Criticism
Adrienne Rich: On 754 ("My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--")
Paula Bennett: On 754 ("My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--")
Cristanne Miller: On 754 ("My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--")
Mary Loeffelholz: On 754 ("My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--")
Albert Gelpi: On 754 ("My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--")
Claudia Yukman: On 754 ("My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--")
Poem Details
Original Publication Year:
1863
Poet:
Emily Dickinson
Poetic Form:
Quatrain
Other Poems by the Same Poet
#465 (591) ("I heard a Fly buzz——when I died——")
#258 (320) ("There's a certain Slant of light,")
#712 (479) ("Because I could not stop for Death-")
#754 (764) ("My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun-")
#303 (409) ("The Soul selects her own Society-")
#280 (340) ("I felt a Funeral, in my Brain")
#341 (372) ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes-")
#508 (353) ("I'm ceded-I've stopped being Theirs-")
#520 (656) ("I started Early-Took my Dog-")
#601 (517) ("A still-Volcano-Life-")
#613 (445) ("They shut me up in Prose-")
#657 (466) ("I dwell in Possibility-")
#1072 (194) ("Title divine-is mine!")
#1129 (1263) ("Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-")
#1705 (1691) ("Volcanoes be in Sicily")
1705 (Volcanoes be in Sicily)
1129 (Tell all the Truth but tell it slant——)
1072 (Title divine——is mine!)
657 (I dwell in Possibility——)
613 (They shut me up in Prose——)
601 (A still——Volcano——Life——)
520 (I started Early——Took my Dog——)
508 (I'm ceded——I've stopped being Theirs)
341 (After great pain, a formal feeling comes——)
280 (I felt a Funeral, in my Brain)
303 (The Soul selects her own Society)
754 (My Life had stood——a Loaded Gun——)
712 (Because I could not stop for Death)
258 (There's a certain Slant of light,)
465 (I heard a Fly buzz——when I died——)
Poems that Share Poetic Form
280 (I felt a Funeral, in my Brain)
303 (The Soul selects her own Society)
712 (Because I could not stop for Death)
258 (There's a certain Slant of light,)
657 (I dwell in Possibility——)
613 (They shut me up in Prose——)
601 (A still——Volcano——Life——)
520 (I started Early——Took my Dog——)
341 (After great pain, a formal feeling comes——)
The Armadillo
For the Union Dead
Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
The Need of Being Versed In Country Things
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Gathering Leaves
In a Disused Graveyard
Desert Places
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
Refugee Ship
To a Dark Girl
The Boy Soprano
Medusa
The Crows
Women
A Black Man Talks of Reaping
Miracles
Where It Ends
The Truth The Dead Know
Esta Noche
Esta Noche
Black Tambourine
Chaplinesque
Episode of Hands
Proem: to Brooklyn Bridge
#657 (466) ("I dwell in Possibility-")
For Love
To John Keats, Poet, at Spring Time
The Haunted Oak
#258 (320) ("There's a certain Slant of light,")
#712 (479) ("Because I could not stop for Death-")
#754 (764) ("My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun-")
#303 (409) ("The Soul selects her own Society-")
#280 (340) ("I felt a Funeral, in my Brain")
#341 (372) ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes-")
#520 (656) ("I started Early-Took my Dog-")
#601 (517) ("A still-Volcano-Life-")
#613 (445) ("They shut me up in Prose-")
