Having written approximately eighteen hundred poems, she is known for her discourses on death, religion and femininity, all considered as controversial topics at the time. she wrote them. His discussion of the feminine is not immediately obvious to the reader, in “My Life Was a Loaded Gun.” Dickinson tended to create hidden meanings in her poetry, so the reader must decipher her words. It talks 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.