The gun, that Dickinson personifies as a living thing ends with the power to kill but lacks the power to die. Powerful as a weapon, however the gun is useless if it does not have a user. The gun seemingly longs for the death that will eventually come for the owner. This poem resonates with me because of the way a gun is personified. “And every time I speak for Him / The Mountains straight reply -“describes the echo of the gun when it is fired in an area with surrounding mountains, which Dickinson describes as the reply of the mountains. Equally as intriguing is the line that says: “To foe of His – I’m deadly foe -” which indicates that although this gun is dangerous to the Owner himself, it is more deadly towards the Owner’s enemies for he can fire the gun at will.

A manifesto that resonated with me was “Seeing” by Wassily Kandinsky. I did a bit of research on him before I chose his manifesto because I wanted to get an idea of who he was as a person. I was surprised to find out that he was a Russian expressionist and abstract artist. It was interesting to see that his art started off as replicas of things he saw in his travels but later on changed into more abstract pieces containing various shapes (usually circles) and splashes of color. His manifesto, although I do not completely understand it, I think is about one of his abstract paintings entitled “Blue Mountain” which was created in 1908. A herd of horses with people riding horseback are galloping through the colorful woods.

“White leap. after white leap. And after this white leap another white leap” seems to be describing the horses the people are riding in this painting. In a sense, this painting depicts Kandinsky’s journey through art. As I mentioned before, he started off with realism which developed into expressionism and later delved into abstract art. Also, throughout his paintings Kandinsky utilizes a lot of blue which he uses to depict spirituality and pureness. What is unique about this painting is that the colors within it do not blend together, but are separate yet not overpowering. Referring back to his manifesto, blue and also white must have been colors of significance to him because he mentions it multiple times throughout his manifesto.