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Emily Dickinson, My Life Had Stood- A Loaded Gun. I received an A* for literature.

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, '
' '
loaded gun
'


Spk = and the owner a

cage
=
at odds w/ women's expected demeanor


functioning female deer
'
metaphor for
'
as ext inner Doe yet the spur
rage a

. =
,



by separating spar +
spur 's
rage into 2 distinct hunts this creature

characters
, poem explores the control that only by suppressing the stereotypically feminine side


rage has over the body of herself can the spur assert power



At the time poem that rage provides Having experienced the enticing

same ,
on> •




a power that the spur alone does not possess power = Own e'r control endows ,
the

poem u s the spur's tendency to get carried spur allows him to gain full dominance





away by anger , but also that
'
Calls
only through Master
'
owner my





that anger can the spur feel powerful spur feels so powerful when
angry ,
and as


such fully submits to
rage
I

'
Takes
'
further when When the good Day [ is ] Done the spur
• •
on resonance considering ,

'
that the anger in this poem = personified as
'
guard Is]
'
the '
Master while sleeping

being male arrangement
indicating spur solidifying her

>
poem = testament to women's her devotion +
tending to her rage
power page,
and gender
dormant rage



anger
:
only way for spur to feel a sense of power


spur couldn't survive without

in a male-dominated society rage


I

' '

carried away → how much control anger exerts

over the spkr
,



by intense
'

since carried '
emotions
ppl =
away


I


Poem expands from the Owner's control of the spur into the

power it affords the spur .




'


While
'
hunt [ ing ] the Doe
'
,
the spur
'
speak [ s ] for him }
'
The Mountains straight reply '




image alludes to echo caused by a gunshot = shows


the magnitude of spur's power when dominated by rage

spurs voice so loud when bolstered by anger = reverberates


throughout
' '
the Mountains

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