Emily Dickensons poems have long enjoyed considerable acclaims from critics and common readers for her delicate and profound writing of life and death, love, nature, etc. Her short poem"My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun"is one receiving relatively few academic discussion. Among the rather few existent studies, many discuss Dickensons feminist ideas, religious bewilderment, literary creation views or even personal feeling in this poem. This article, instead, gives an interpretation of this poem from an eco-critical perspective. It points out that Emily Dickenson in this poem expresses her condemnation on humans cruelty and indiffer-ence to nature. After a thorough interpretation of Dickensons reflection on human-nature relationship in this poem, the article fur-ther explores Dickensons attitudes toward nature through her personal writing background and clues in her other works to support this interpretation.