Although lines from William Blake's "Marriage of Heaven and Hell" and "Auguries of Innocence" are quoted throughout this Jim Jarmusch film, I've always believed it to be based on Emily Dickinson's #754 (My Life had stood -- a Loaded Gun) because of how Depp's character evolves from a timid accountant to an accomplished gun-slinger. I offer these two scenes as support. In the second, I have in mind the lines "And now We roam in Sovereign Woods - And now We hunt the Doe - " Note as well that Depp's nemesis (played by Robert Mitchum) is named Dickinson:
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