Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson is one of the most famous poems of all time. During her lifetime she wrote about 1800 poems although only a few of them were published. After her death her friend stumbled onto to her poetry diaries and then later on he published three volumes of this poetry. Many of Dickinson's poems dealt with death. Throughout her poems she shows death in many ways. For example in one of her poems she shows death as a soother and calmer. In her poem 280 Dickinson goes on to talk about a funeral in her mind. This poem is much like her other poems as it deals with the theme of Death and is written in a funereal atmosphere. First, this poem consists of five stanzas, each which consists of four lines. Also repetition is used here as the words, treading, beating and down are repeated. This is significant because it might indicate hoe the speaker's mental state is deteriorating. Also anaphora is used as in the last stanza each line begins with the word And. Th
So, in conclusion Emily Dickinson's poem 280 dealt with the death of the speaker's mind, not far from the theme of death usually portrayed in Dickinson's poems. The word drum is very appropriately used in this stanza. e tone in this poem seems to be funereal because there are many things that suggest this. Here sense is used as something that finally makes the speaker realize what is happening to him. Also the speaker in the third line says, " And hit a World, at every plunge,". The last line of the second stanza says, "My Mind was going numb-". In the fourth stanza as the speaker's mind is being lowered into the coffin, the speaker says, "And being, but an Ear,". In the third stanza the speaker talks abut picking up a box and then that event creaked across his soul. So the drum is very appropriate to use here. In the first line of the last stanza the speaker says, "And then a Plank in Reason, broke,". This service might suggest a long speech that is contributing to the downfall of the speaker's mind. The last line might indicate that the speaker has gone from a sense of reasoning to a sense of not knowing anything, so then the speaker's brain is finally dead. The line "Sense was breaking through" might indicate that the speaker finally realizes that he is going crazy and there is nothing he can do about it. Also the first line of the third paragraph states that, "And then I heard them lift a Box". In the last stanza the speaker might be indicating that his mind is not dead after all, and there is still hope.
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