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I think that:
The thing that hurts / sabotages is the most is ourselves: our own mind. Especially in a dark, quiet and lonely place.

FIRST STANZA:
- the mind is a place that we exist in
- the multiple dashes throughout the poem: her thoughts are super overwhelming I. Her own mind,, like broken sentences and broken thoughts.

SECOND STANZA:
- external threat is less dangerous than that if the threat of our own thoughts
- “confronting”: suggest the need of bravery to confront our own thoughts

FOURTH STANZA:
- We should be most afraid of ourselves
- “assassin”: people who hides then attacks / sabotages in the dark, in a sneaky way
- “our apartment”: a place where we live and are most comfortable in.
- irony of having a assassin in our apartment

LAST STANZA:
- closes themselves in the house = alone with their mind
- “bolts the door”: protected agains the external threats but stuck with their mmind.
- “superior spectre”: our minds are like a dangerous and unknown place that is difficult to understand and comprehend. And in fact may be ‘more’ than what we expect it to be

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i see: foreign words Abbey gallop, The Stones🥲🥲
i think: Assassin+Apartment vs Body+Revolver parallel each other bc one is seen as a threat and the other is seen as a refuge/something safe. whole poem seems to link to unseen/underlying threats in things that are least likely to be dangerous >> trying to show that danger can appear in the most unexpected /least talked about places like our mind + human beings
i wonder: first two lines and last two lines start with capitalised O, does this mean anything?

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"ourself behind ourself" ???
seems like false illusion of many but truly there is no one but ourselves??

what is a superior spectre 😥

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One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted
-> The persona is being haunted by his own thoughts
-> Parallels with the Imagery of Ghosts & Spectres
-> Safer to be with supernatural creatures than be alone "Far safer... Than unarmed, one's a'self encounter/ In line place"
-> The mind conceals horrors. "concealed - / Should startle most"
-> Body/ Material Palace is separate from the mind. Diction in "borrow" highlights outsider person viewpoint which suggests detachment

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i see: ABCB rhyme scheme in stanzas 2 and 3
i think: both are showing how being pursued/threatened by others is far less worse than being confronted by perhaps parts of you that you do not want to face??
i wonder: the rhyming of certain words (eg ‘Ghost’ and ‘Host’)is significant but dont really know how to explain.. also the capitalisation

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a constant rhythm to the second and third stanzas (2nd - 8,3,8,3 syllabus. 3rd - 9,4,9,4 syllabus)
i don’t know what this could mean but it gives a very regular, thudding feeling to the poem

the mind as a threat that isn’t immediately obvious
“hid”, “concealed”

is the mention of danger when in a “lonesome place” referring to the danger that comes from a state of emotional loneliness or when one is physically alone (detachment?????? idk)

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In the poem, there seems to be a movement, like moving away from the haunted place (like the brain)
We then move to “Abbey gallop” then “The Stones”, before arriving at the apartment (like the own mind? Cause “The Body” is referred to as a separate entity and locks the persona in with it, like a killer waiting to strike in privacy

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enjambment used throughout the poem slows down the pace of the poem, adding a mysterious and creepy effect especially with dictions related to horror like “ Ghost” and “ Assassin”.
I think that the persona seems to be associating his mind with danger and threat so much so he is afraid to confront his thoughts, seems to be running away from them.

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Can i just ask what is an abbey gallop

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Why is there a revolver?
The ending seems to cut off abruptly and is incomplete
"more" is a very open word, and "spectre" is a ghost, something left to our imagination?
-without saying or explaining more, plays on our fear of the unknown esp with the uneasy effect the cut off creates

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- the mind is metaphorised as an unwanted guest? its shown in how words like “haunted” and “ghost” are used and it seems like it is scary and keeps people awake at night

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I think the (em?) dashes continuously fragment the speaker's words to the extent where prepositions are absent. The chronology of thought is jumbled, paralleling a sense of panic wherein sense, logic and flow is disregarded

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repeated point of external v internal, external threat vs internal turmoil or self-destruction
also repeated use of metaphor to push idea that mind is a place, as opposed to a tool or an object, idea that we exist within our minds, mind is not our own?? a microcosm of reality that is yet all encompassing
repeated idea that mind is dangerous, more so than external threat
more and more dashes that reads v abruptly, simulates overwhelming feeling of paranoia esp after creation of supposed threat thru quotes like “bolts the door”, “startle more” and “a’chase”

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superior spectre? maybe it refers to spiritual beings, gods? “Or More -“ ?? not sure…

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i see: comparisons made between scary/dangerous occurrences, and the mind
i think: the poem talks about the mind being capable of posing a greater danger, especially on its own
i wonder: what the ending means 😭😭

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- why are the words relating to a physical space capitalised?
- why is there heavy use of hyphens throughout the poem? in fact, the poem even ends with a hyphen. the only exception is in the first two lines of stanza two.
- why is there a motif relating to ghosts/haunting?

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why does the speaker use so many dash