A Loaded Gun (33 page)

      
as innocent in white,
32
,
64

      
as Loaded Gun,
150

      
many,
84
,
102
,
164

      
as quick witted,
15
,
76
,
196

      
as split,
25

Philips Academy,
115

photographers,
134

Poe, Edgar Allan,
136

poems (discussions of)

      
as apocalyptic,
92
,
140
,
142
,
162
,
170
,
201–2
,
206
,
213

      
Carlo (dog) in,
83–84

      
on creativity,
77

      
death in,
44
,
81
,
92
,
132
,
140
,
164–65
,
166–67
,
201

      
discoveries of,
19

      
Emily on,
17
,
33
,
84
,
100–102
,
132
,
191–92

      
Emily's instructions to destroy,
99
,
102

      
on envelopes,
112
,
154
,
175–78
,
182–83
,
196

      
eroticism of,
31
,
147
,
149
,
150

      
father in,
67
,
93–95

      
fragments used in,
159

      
Higginson on,
26–27

      
Higginson's edits of,
19

      
Kate in,
144–45
,
146–47
,
215–16

      
lexicon of,
19
,
22
,
29
,
30
,
43
,
46
,
66
,
158
,
178
,
197

      
locomotive stamp in,
95

      
Maher's storing of,
99
,
102–3

      
male prejudice about,
107–8

      
mermaids in,
83–84

      
productive period of,
42
,
63
,
80
,
82
,
152
,
190–91

      
as “Snow,”
99
,
163

      
Sue on publication of,
75

      
topics of,
144

      
Vinnie's writing of,
47
,
126

      
violence of,
99
,
144
,
153
,
163
,
182
,
201–2

poems (list of)

      
“Alone and in a Circumstance” [Fr1174],
93–95

      
“The Brain—is wider than the Sky” [Fr598],
32
,
208

      
“By homely gifts and hindered words” [Fr1611],
183–84

      
“The Clock strikes One” [Fr1598D],
39

      
“Dirks of Melody” [Fr1450],
33
,
44
,
172

      
“Finding is the first Act” [Fr910],
36

      
“He fumbles at your Soul” [Fr477A],
132

      
“He lived the Life of Ambush” [Fr1571B],
202

      
“I am not used to Hope” [Fr535],
68
,
111

      
“I cannot dance opon my Toes” [Fr381A],
33
,
120
,
124

      
“I dreaded that first Robin, so” [Fr347],
167–68

      
“I felt a Cleaving in my Mind” [Fr867B],
76–77

      
“I heard a Fly buzz—when I died” [Fr591],
129–30

      
“In many and reportless places” [Fr1404],
177–78

      
“I saw no Way—the Heavens were stitched” [Fr633],
77
,
92

      
“I shall not murmur if at last” [Fr1429],
146–47

      
“I started Early—Took my Dog” [Fr656],
83–84

      
“I stepped from Plank to Plank” [Fr926],
173
,
174

      
“It feels a shame to be Alive” [Fr524],
81

      
“I think I was enchanted” [Fr627],
90

      
“It is solemn to remember that Vastness” [Fr1548],
209

      
“I would not paint—a picture” [Fr348],
100–101

      
“Like Men and Women Shadows walk” [Fr964],
165

      
“A loss of something ever felt I” [Fr1072],
45

      
““Mama” never forgets her birds” [Fr130],
58

      
“My basket holds—just—Firmaments” [Fr358],
38

      
“My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun” [Fr764],
24–25
,
82
,
84
,
142
,
150–51
,
193
,
202
,
213
,
217

      
“A narrow Fellow in the Grass” [J986],
19
,
184

      
“Of God we ask one favor” [Fr1675B],
163

      
“Of nearness to her sundered Things” [Fr337],
139–40

      
“The Poets light but Lamps” [Fr930],
38

      
“Rearrange a ‘Wife's' affection!” [Fr267],
93

      
“A Route of Evanescence” [Fr1489A],
35

      
“She dealt her pretty words like Blades” [Fr458],
166–67

      
“She rose to His Requirement” [Fr857],
61–62

      
“The Soul has Bandaged moments” [Fr360],
19
,
54
,
82
,
168

      
“The Spider holds a Silver Ball” [Fr513],
22
,
23
,
172

      
“A Spider sewed at Night” [Fr1163A],
171

      
“Those—dying then” [Fr1581],
22

      
“The Tint I cannot take—is best” [Fr696],
193–94

      
“'Tis Seasons since the Dimpled War” [Fr1551],
85–86

      
“Title divine—is mine” [Fr194],
25
,
31
,
45
,
165
,
203

      
“We shun because we prize her Face” [Fr1430A],
215

      
“What mystery pervades a well!” [Fr1433A],
169

      
“When I have seen the Sun emerge” [Fr1095],
172

      
“When I hoped, I recollect” [Fr493],
144–45

      
“When they begin, if Robins may” [Fr1042],
168

      
“Wild Nights” [Fr269],
136
,
141
,
144
,
166

      
“Yellow Whip” [Fr1248],
202

“The Poets light but Lamps” [Fr930],
38

A Poet's Parents: The Courtship Letters of Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson
(Pollak),
51

politics, of father,
60
,
64
,
67
,
81
,
96
,
170
,
205

Pollak, Vivian R.,
51

Porter, David,
121
,
123
,
154

power, of Emily,
20
,
21–22
,
24–25

preceptors

      
Bowles, Sam as,
24
,
163

      
Higginson as,
17
,
22
,
23–24
,
37
,
163

      
Sue as,
163

predator and huntress persona,
142
,
150
,
152
,
217

prison

      
in Emily's fragments,
163

      
in Emily's letters,
80

      
Pearl Jail,
58
,
66–67
,
91
,
144
,
147

      
Scarlet,
63
,
208
,
212

productive period,
42
,
63
,
80
,
82
,
152
,
190–91

Proust, Marcel,
206

publication

      
Emily on,
38
,
95
,
99–100
,
194

      
first,
19
,
150

      
by Higginson and Todd,
26–27
,
69
,
190

      
Jackson on,
162

      
Johnson's, of fragments,
155

      
by Niles,
150

      
by Roberts Brothers of Boston,
26
,
103

      
in
Springfield Republican,
184

      
Sue on,
75
,
148–49
,
156

      
unknown to Emily,
184

      
Vinnie on,
148–49

publishers and editors

      
Higginson as,
26–27
,
37–38
,
156
,
190

      
Roberts Brothers, Boston,
26
,
103

      
Todd as,
19
,
27
,
37–38
,
69
,
149
,
156
,
190

puzzles

      
Emily's,
27
,
37
,
101
,
175
,
180
,
210

      
Leyda on,
29
,
31
,
73

‘Queen Recluse' nickname,
20
,
156
,
199
,
214

quick witted persona,
15
,
76
,
196

“Rabbit Angstrom” (fictional character),
206

radical scatters,
154
,
158
,
159
,
160
,
164
,
165
,
191
,
197

Radical Scatters
(Werner),
164

railroad,
95
,
96

Ransom, John Crowe,
107–8

“Rearrange a ‘Wife's' affection!” [Fr267],
93

recluse.
See also
agoraphobia

      
Cornell as,
125
,
127

      
Emily as,
25
,
26
,
40–41
,
69
,
79
,
125
,
127
,
185–86
,
211

      
Emily's ‘Queen Recluse' nickname,
20
,
156
,
199
,
214

      
myth of,
19–20

red hair,
53
,
74
,
76
,
122
,
138
,
192

religion and God

      
Emily on,
22
,
32
,
35
,
70
,
73
,
79
,
169
,
171

      
of family,
73

RepliLuxe, of Emily,
136–40
,
141
,
143
,
165
,
210

Rich, Adrienne,
20
,
21
,
22
,
24–25
,
144
,
203

The Riddle of Emily Dickinson
(Patterson),
108
,
142

riddles

      
of Emily's sexuality,
108
,
216

      
of Emily's writing style,
29
,
30
,
111
,
127
,
165
,
186
,
204