Rather, it was likely due to Dickinson simply enjoying the experience of layering meanings on top of each other. Her poems can be likened to archeological digs. On the surface there is one layer, but dig a little deeper and another layer is found. Dickinson, Emily. Nina Baym. New York: W. Norton, Random House, Inc. Gilligan, K. Gilligan, Kathleen E. The newsletter highlights recent selections from the journal and useful tips from our blog.
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Forgot password? Reset your password ». By Kathleen E. Gilligan , Vol. Cite References Print. References Dickinson, Emily. Kathleen E. Temptation and the Ring in J. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring. Given Dickinson's time and upbringing, it would, of course, have been unlikely that she, any more than we today, would have been comfortable with the high degree of anger and alienation which she exhibits in this extraordinary poem.
But the anger and the alienation are there and, whether we are comfortable or not, like Dickinson we must deal with them. If, as Adrienne Rich asserts, "My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun" is a "central poem in understanding Emily Dickinson, and ourselves, and the condition of the woman artist, particularly in the nineteenth century," it is so precisely because Dickinson was prepared to grapple in it with so many unacceptable feelings within herself.
Whatever else "My Life had stood" may be about, it is about the woman as artist, the woman who must deny her femininity, even perhaps her humanity, if she is to achieve the fullness of her self and the fullness of her power in her verse.
Reprinted with permission of the author. You are currently not logged in. Skip to main content Skip to navigation. No poem written by a woman poet more perfectly captures the nature, the difficulties, and the risks involved in this task of self-redefinition and self-empowerment than the poem that stands at the center of this book, Emily Dickinson's brilliant and enigmatic "My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun": [.
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