The speaker of an essay about this writer imagines being “an insect, vibrating at the frames of windows, clinging to panes of glass.” That essay argues that this writer translated subversiveness into a “dialect called metaphor” and praises lines about an “imperial thunderbolt” and winds taking “forests in their paws.” That essay, which imagines “traveling at the speed of time” to this writer’s home, takes its title from one of several poems by this author that mention volcanoes. This subject of Adrienne Rich’s “Vesuvius at Home” wrote about roaming through “Sovreign Woods” and hunting a doe in a poem about having “the power to kill” but not “the power to die.” In that poem by this author, the “Mountains straight reply” when the title object is fired. For 10 points, name this poet of “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun.” ■END■
ANSWER: Emily Dickinson [or Emily Elizabeth Dickinson]
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