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On ED’s 754/764
- New Literary History
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 45, Number 2, Spring 2014
- pp. 253-270
- 10.1353/nlh.2014.0013
- Article
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This essay considers the long history of the criticism addressing Emily Dickinson’s poem, “My life had stood—a loaded gun,” in light of issues of interpretation, over-interpretation, and underinterpretation.