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The use of dashes is something only Emily Dickinson really did.  Dashes, again, were her way of putting emphasis on things, but also as a way to change the subject/idea.  An example is "The Mountains straight reply- 

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Sudden and Violent outbursts

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God's Woods

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The entire poems is personification of a weapon.

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Repetition
- Foe

End Rhyme
- a Day & away
- I & die

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The use of dashes is something only Emily Dickinson really did.  Dashes, again, were her way of putting emphasis on things, but also as a way to change the subject/idea.  An example is "The Mountains straight reply-
And do I smile..." There is a noticeable change of topic and Dickinson is the one to emphasis this.

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Emily Dickinson uses capitalization because it provides emphasis on words. One example is "a Loaded Gun." Dickinson wants to make the topic of this poem more noticeable for the reader.

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Told you I'm not the only one who thinks this poem is about suicide!

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A video by City High School Senior, RIo Finnegan, that is a visual representation of the poem, My Life Had Stood - A Loaded Gun, by Emily Dickinson. This video was produced as part of the "The Big Read", a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, which this year focused on the work of the poet, Dickinson.

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My Life had stood- a Loaded Gun-
In Corners-till a Day
The Owner passed- identified-
And carried Me away-

And now We roam in Sovereign Woods-
And now We hunt the Doe-
And every time I speak for Him-
The Mountains straight reply-

And do I smile, such cordial light
Upon the Valley glow-
It is as a Vesuvian face
Had let its pleasure through-

And when at Night-Our good Day done-
I guard My Master's Head-
'Tis better than the Eider-Duck's
Deep Pillow-to have shared-

To foe of His-I'm deadly foe-
None stir the second time-
On whom I lay a Yellow Eye-
Or an emphatic Thumb-

Though I than He-may longer live
He longer must-than I-
For I have but the power to kill,
Without-the power to die-

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1) "It is as a Vesuvian face"
2) " 'Tis better than the Eider-Duck's Deep Pillow"
3)  "We roam in Sovereign Woods"

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The meaning of the poem is that the gun is used to protect the owner and personifies the weapon.