Can someone clue me in on what Emily Dickinson is referring to? I feel like she's trying to relate her life to a loaded gun but the metaphors and similes in this poem are just way over my head. I never been a big poem person
That poem is being straight forward, the narrator is a literal gun. The gun is grateful to the owner for rescuing him from the event-less life he had on a gun store shelf. He shows this by hunting with his owner and protecting him from all foes. Since a gun can not act on his own or die his existence is that of service to his owner until he dies.
Eyosyas- if the speaker is a gun, and has been "standing loaded/ In Corners" until "The Owner..../Carried [the speaker] away(Dickinson 1-4) what kind of relationship can we deduce this is? Why corners, not shelves as Xavier suggests? 'identified' as what? Why does the gun find guarding the master's head (13-14), better than "...the Eider-Duck's/Deep Pillow - to have shared" (15-16)?
That poem is being straight forward, the narrator is a literal gun. The gun is grateful to the owner for rescuing him from the event-less life he had on a gun store shelf. He shows this by hunting with his owner and protecting him from all foes. Since a gun can not act on his own or die his existence is that of service to his owner until he dies.
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