Maybe Dickinson wrote this poem about one of her alleged lovers, such as Judge Otis Phillips Lord—her father's friend—or Susan Huntington Gilbert—Dickinson's friend, sister in-law and possible lover (Emily Dickinson Museum).

MLA Works Cited: “Emily Dickinson’s Love Life.” Emily Dickinson Museum , https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/emily-dickinson/biography/special-topics/emily-dickinsons-love-life/.

Word play with the word "moor" which could have a double meaning, meaning uncultivated land or referring to the speaker's desire for 'more' "Wild Nights".

The speaker is claiming that they are so enthralled by these "Wild Nights" that nothing, not even the strongest winds, could deter them. In addition, the use of the word "Heart"---which is also capitalized---indicates that the speaker is in love.

The use of the word "Ah" indicates the pleasure that these "Wild Nights" give the speaker.

Possibly referring to the Garden of Eden. Maybe, like Adam and Eve, the "Wild Nights" that the speaker and their lover share have a level of wickedness/ wrong to them.

Showing how love and lust can overtake us and make us lose our senses and logic.

These "Wild Nights" are shared with another person.

The pause/ caesura resulting from the two dashes as well as the repetition of the phrase "Wild Nights" twice and its upper-cased letters emphasizes the exceedingly crazy and out of the ordinary nature of the events which the speaker is talking about.

Use of the word "our" indicates that theses "Wild Nights" are shared with another person besides the speaker.

This line doesn't really fit with the rest of the poem and seems kind of random; this line seems to shift the tone of the poem---which deals with the deep-rooted issue of sexism---making the poem less intense and dramatic even though it is grappling with a hard subject. Also, by alternating between lines that have deep, complex meanings and lines in which the speaker simply blurts out their thoughts, the speaker makes the poem more light-hearted despite the difficult topics it addresses.

word choice here alluding to the speaker's naivety

imagery of a garden, fruit, and God potentially scolding the speaker (who is presumably a woman) for something that she should not do reminds me of the Garden of Eden and further, Adam and Eve's eating from the tree of knowledge and the "original sin".

The speaker's use of the word apron implies their involvement in the domestic sphere and their possible identity as a house wife

The same phrase and dashes used in line 1 are used again here.

These lines are so powerful and could easily be applied to the modern political and social landscape of today in which we are questioning the need for guns and gun laws in America. Other interpretations of this poem also suggest that the "Loaded Gun" which the poem is about is a metaphor for women and the power which a woman and her words' posses (Gilligan).

MLA Citation: Gilligan, Kathleen E. "Emily Dickinson's 'My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun-': Revealing the Power of a Woman's Words." Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse 3.09 (2011). http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/a?id=569

I think that throughout the poem, Dickinson capitalizes 'He' in order to show how we as humans can be like Gods, determining the fate of others (and in the case of this poem, animals, and specifically the deer).

glow is another reference to this "light" theme

The capitalized 'H' here could be a reference to God. The speaker could be trying to show how when we hunt, we are doing something un-human and supernatural by determining another creator's right to life, like a God would.

The speaker seems to be describing the process of hunting a deer.

Poem about taking pleasure in another, specifically, in a sexual way.

referring to laying of the fingers on the gun

"yellow eye" maybe trying to point out how humans hunt and kill animals for small moments of happiness without acknowledging what the longterm consequences of their actions will be.

is 'Master' here a reference to God?

word choice with describing face as "Vesuvian"---like the deadly Mount Vesuvius (note: the word mountain is used in the line above) ---could be alluding to the highly irrational, emotional, and impatient aspects of humans.

references to light being a repeated theme in Dickinson's poems

word choice with the word 'loaded'; not just a gun, but a loaded gun, with potential to do harm and put others in danger

speaker's attempt to achieve their dreams is throttled by their gender

speaker's re-assurance of themselves--->Maybe the dashes are being used show the narrator's inner thoughts.

dashes allude to the speaker's hope and expectation that the strawberries will grow

freedom of the "He" is juxtaposed with the entrapment of the poem's speaker

capitalized "H" in "He", is this a reference to God?

dash here builds suspense, what is over the fence?

Throughout this speech, Douglas makes numerous religious allusions. Here specifically, Douglas references the biblical story of Abraham, whose faith was tested by God when he was told to kill his only son Isaac. More about the story of Abraham can be found on the website below. Here, Douglass makes reference to Abraham in order to illustrate the importance of recognizing the history of our past and those before us in order to better understand how we got to where we are in the present. Douglass specifically seeks to highlight the importance slavery and slave labour has had in the foundation and evolution of America.

Who is Abraham from the Bible and Why Is He Important? https://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/christianity/who-is-abraham-in-the-bible.aspx

alliteration

The clock adds a layer of anxiety and nervousness to not only those in the story, but to those reading the story as well. Poe seems oddly acute to sound.

presence of fire maybe foreshadowing the presence of the disease

Here Poe seems to be explaining what stained glass is to his audience, as it was a new development which completely changed Gothic architecture.

There appears to be a theme in Poe's works in which Poe hyper-focuses on the face of individuals and uses their faces to account for maltreatment.

theme of entrapment throughout many of Poe's works

dragon is a metaphor for anxiety

Here the mansion, the mansions' decaying state, the Usher, and the Usher's family are all connected together through not only their troublesome conditions, but the entrapment of the history of their lineage.

This picture seems to be a metaphor for the Usher's depressive and anxious state.

reveals how mental health was viewed during the time Poe wrote this short story

The choice to describe the man's complexion as "cadaverous" is odd. It seems as though the narrators in Poe's works always see death in other characters.

I feel like the use of the verb ushered here is important and connects to the title of the work.

It seems as though here Poe is referring to anxiety---something he and his many narrator's likely grappled with.

Unlike the vengeful narrators that we see in most of Poe's works, this narrator appears compassionate and empathetic.

I feel like this line really sums up a lot of Poe's writing, which grants seemingly unimportant objects with a sort of dark spiritedness that reveal aspects about the narrator's psych as well as the plot in a gripping yet unnerving way.