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. The tone in this poem seems to be funereal because there are many things that suggest this. For example the first line states that, "I felt a funeral, in my Brain,". This could suggest a funeral. Also the first line of the third paragraph states that, "And then I heard them lift a Box". This box could indicate a coffin, so the tone in this poem is funereal.
             The line "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" could suggest that the speaker's mental health is not all that good, and that the speaker might be on the brink of insanity. 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. Here sense is used as something that finally makes the speaker realize what is happening to him.
             In the second stanza the speaker talks of a service that was being delivered. This service might suggest a long speech that is contribut
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