Having completed approximately eighteen hundred poems, she is known for her discourses on death, religion, and femininity, all considered controversial topics at the time she he wrote them. His discussion of the feminine is not immediately apparent to the reader, within “My Life Had a Loaded Gun.” Dickinson tended to create hidden meanings in her poetry, so the reader must decipher her words. It's about the identity of women in a society run by my men. The poem, great in its hidden meaning, contains thoughts about the destructive power of a woman for a long time