In Emily Dickinson’s poems “My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun”

In Emily Dickinson’s poems “My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun” and “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died,” she
speaks in the voice of someone (or something) different from herself. In one poem she is a speaking gun; in the
other she is dead. What effect does this have for the reader? What does it tell you about Dickinson that she so
easily identifies with something other than her own experience or identity?
Choose one of the poems discussed in the Voices and Visions: Emily Dickinson video and explain what it is
about and how you think some aspect of her life might
have affected her writing of the poem