The Heart asks Pleasure First

Emily Dickinson was a crazy old lady who wrote poems about things she observed from people who passed by here. Though in my opinion some one can not really write about life and stuff about it when their own life is nothing but watching other people. How do you write about life when she really is not even living her own life. Anyway, this poem is about human nature, the first line "the heart asks pleasure first" means exactly what it says. The most important thing to people is them having pleasure like how drug addicts only care about being high. The second line "And then, excuse from pain;" the second line is straightforward too. It just means that pain is the thing we all strive to avoid because we do not want to hurt. the third line "And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;" Is a little trickier because anodynes means medicine that help to alleviate pain but obviously deaden people are people who do not need medicine to alleviate any pain because they are dead. SO I think it means they need medicine to help their dead self or soul so not a real dead personjj