Analysis Of My Life Had Stood A Loaded Gun

In the first part of the poem the writer shows the difficulty he is having with taking a human life. In the second stanza he says “Making night work for us the starlight scope bringing men into killing range. This dark tone helps to emphasize the struggle the author is feeling as a soldier in war. Also he shows his emotions directly. In stanza 3 he says “The river under Vi Bridge takes the heart away”. This quote shows the feeling that the author gets

The theme of this poem is an overall extended metaphor of woodchucks and the mind state of the people that were influenced by the Nazi warfare. Also, that what happened during the Holocaust was horrible and inhuman. The tone of this poem starts out to be non violent, however, shifts to a more aggressive tone when we get to the third stanza. Also, the speaker makes a shift as well in lines 10-12 “ They brought down the marigolds as matter of course and then took over the vegetable patch nipping the broccoli shoots, beheading the carrots”. In these lines, the speaker’s personality is more in a nonviolent perspective. However, the speaker changes to a not have grace for the woodchucks in lines 13-15, “ The food from our mouths, I said, righteously thrilling to the feel of the .22, the bullets; neat noses. I, a lapsed pacifist fallen from grace”. Then again, the speaker also changes their mood to almost heartless in lines 22-24, “Another baby next. O one-two-three the murderer inside me rose up hard, the hawkeye killer came on stage forthwith”. The speaker of the poem is mostly likely not connected to the woodchucks and it is a woman, also we know is that she ruined their garden. The mood of this poem is sad of how the speaker became so violent. The way that the speaker handled the situation influenced my tone and mood to be more disgusted from the inhuman way that they were dying and how the speaker started to have a little fun with it. Some of the different elements that the poet used affected the audience’s mood of the situation and the poet also used some figurative language in the poem as

The first quatrain of the poem introduces us to a conflict; the man is depressed and conflicted. We know this because the speakers says, “mine eyes take no delight to range” (3). In the second

The poem begins with a somewhat trivial inventory of a rich family's home and lifestyle. However, the tone changes abruptly with the mention of "a pistol on the cushion beside him." There is not an abundance of symbolism in the prose, but the symbols that are included are quite powerful. Along with the pistol on the cushion, there is the image of the broken bottles "embedded in the walls around the house to scoop the kneecaps from a man's legs or cut his hands to lace." Also, the moon swinging bare "on its black cord over the house" appears to be a reference to a light

Each line does not represent a new thought but instead many line often do. While reading the poem the reader can easily identify a few clusters. One of them is: Revolver, bullet, Trigger, Body, Blood, and Gun. These create feeling of murder or suicide. Words that one might read in a newspaper, like the author never knew him but read the details in a police report. The author uses a number of poetic devices to invoke the mood of the poem in the reader. For example, the author personifies sorrow by saying that it has no sense of propriety and that it is able to take what it wants. The author uses imagery to bring the reader in and make them feel like they were there. For example, cool green sheets, small hot mouth, and butter pecan or chocolate

Emily Dickinson is a poet known for her cryptic, confusing language. Words are often put together in an unusual way and create deciphering difficulties for the reader. But behind all the confusion is a hidden meaning that becomes clear, and one realizes that all the odd word choices were chosen for a specific reason. The 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

because the poem is talking about nature but its really nothing about nature, there's some character inside of it, nature, eden and dawn. nature is a character in the poem that is hiding the real meaning of the poem.

I think the author's tone on his poem is being happy, but also gradually getting more and more sad. I think this because it says "Nature's first green is gold,". As well as gradually getting sadder with "So Eden sank to grief,". The mood of this poem is telling the reader to enjoy everything your life has to offer, because you can't have fun and stay young forever.

“My Life has stood – a Loaded Gun,” a six-stanza poem by Emily Dickinson requires the reader to pay close attention to the clues left behind to decipher the hidden meaning. The poem can seem confusing to even the most careful reader, but after reading the poem, it can be assumed that the speaker is female. Dickinson deliberately uses random capitalization, a lack of punctuation, and excessive dashes to highlight the meaning behind her words. After a first read, it is easy for the reader to conclude that the poem is exclusively about the personification of a gun, but several metaphorical clues lead to a second meaning, a message that a woman and her words have great power.

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 before returning again. Though she did not marry, the traditional roles of women still restricted her to live in the home of her family and under the ruler ship of her father like the rest of the women in the house. Some of her close friends and

His face looked so peaceful with the artificial moonlight casting shadows underneath his fluttering eyelashes. I hoped not to disturb him while I moved my hand towards the gun strapped at my hip. It felt cool and smooth against the heat of my palms. I took one more look at his chest falling as his breathing evened out and without hesitation I whipped out my weapon and pressed it against his skull. He jerked awake, his eyes wide and his pulse quick, and stared down the barrel of my gun. The voice that escaped the back of his throat was quivering with fear and desperation as he begged me for mercy. I stood unfazed, for I had heard it all before. After all, I was the one who had written all of his lines. When he finished his pleading, I recited

“Give me all your money!” Ron yelled as he pointed the gun at the clerk. “Faster, Faster, Faster, come on you lousy son of a gun!” Finally Ron shot the gun and ran as fast as he could as he could. He could hear the cops arriving at the scene of the robbery’

Basically we made shelter at an abandoned fruit shop she was pretty much a know-it-all jerk, she wouldn’t talk to me unless she was telling me I was an idiot, the only information I could figure was that she was from England or somewhere close to it given her accent. I guess I should describe what she looks like: She has long blond hair with a tint of red, bright blue eyes and white skin, she wore a grey tank top and camo shorts with a gun peeking out of the right pocket. I had to lay on the floor with my back propped up on the counter, I guess I must off dosed off because the next thing I knew I was getting yelled at by what’s-her-face in between gunshots, apparently I was supposed to keep watch while she slept and zombies got in. I immediately dug into my pocket to grab my gun, only it wasn’t there then I realized she had 2 guns. “Why the ____ do you have my gun?! “You don’t really think I’d let you keep a gun, do

Also, when she talks about the "Woods being Sovereign", it gives a sense of control. This all gives me the impression that being a "loaded gun" she is harmless until her master takes possession of it (her). And in the line, "And every time I speak for him/ The Mountains straight reply", it represents language to

The poem begins with two lines which are repeated throughout the poem which convey what the narrator is thinking, they represent the voice in