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I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
Emily Dickinson’s poem “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain” was obviously written when she started focusing more on death and trying to figure out its real meaning. ... At the beginning of the poem and all throughout it we can see that the speaker is comparing having a funeral in her brain to going insane, and traces the speakers plunge into madness. ... Dickinson uses the central metaphor of a funeral to represent the speakers sense that a part of her is dying (she uses this all through out the poem). ... She is both observer of the funeral which can be seen when she says “I heard them lift a box/…With those same boots of lead”, and a participant because she says she actually “felt a funeral in /[her] brain”, indicating that the Self is divided.
Approximate Word count = 664
Approximate Pages = 2.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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