Analysis on" my life had stood a loaded gun"

Kristel Encarnacion
Analysis on "my life had stood a loaded gun"


This poem was a little more complex for me but when i started to see the meaning that may or may not be hidden in the lines. I found it to be an outstanding poem. I think that in this poem the gun is actually the narrator of the story. I think its very interesting to actually give an object a personality. I feel like the gun is key in the story and a metaphor kind of comparing a gun to someones life, although im not sure precisely who.  When the gun states "none stir the second time" its as if the gone is in constant stress over never letting his master down,  as if he can never fail him. And when the gun states "He longer must - than I -

For I have but the power to kill,

Without--the power to die--" in a sense i feel the gun desires his master to live longer than her because she will be left all alone when he is gone since she has no say on dying.