I Felt A Funeral In My Brain
Life, death,and reincarnation are portrayed in Emily Dickinson's poem "I Felt A Funeral In My Brain." The use of words associated with death gives the poem an ominous and dark karms. To add to this karma, important words that are strong in meaning are capitalized. At the beginning of this poem the feelings of grief and pain are evident. Throughout the rest of the poem, there is a strong sense that the speaker needs to make a choice between a world full of trouble and pain or a heaven that brings solitude and peace. This is all part of a vicious cycle. Sometimes when life doesn't turn out for the best, you need to wait until your cycle is up. This is reflected clearly at the end of the poem. The speaker lives life, passes away, and is reborn again into this world all throughout this poem's entirety. The first two words of this poem reveal strong feelings. The words "I felt" show that the speaker is talking about themselves. In line 1, the words "I felt a funeral in my brain," brings to mind death. The word "funeral" combined with the word "brain" can be simplified into the fact that death is inside the speaker. "and mourners to and fro/kept treading-treading-till it seemed/that sense was breaking through-"(2,3,4). H
In the last stanza the solitude breaks, and all that was once good is dropping as if this was deck made of wood containg many planks, the if a "plank" was to break you would fall. A feeling of relief has surfaced, but only for a short while. These problems build up and "the space began to toll. It also fits well at the end of this poem because not only is the poem over but it also signifies the end of life and the start of a new one. The emphasis (repitition) on dropping down is the show how far heaven is away, and how far the speaker actually was before falling. The upbringing of the soul in line 10 gives a sense of spirituality to the poem, the meaning of these words reflect the concepts of life and death. Confusion is shown in lines 6,7 and 8, "like a drum,/kept beating-beating-till I thought. The dashes between "treading-treading-," allow a pause between the two words, inducing a long, repetitive treading. The line "as all the heavens were a bell"(13), is very interesting. This would reflect the next line "and I dropped down, and down-and hit a world. Each stage was a hard endeavor, with some, followed a period of relief, and others followed with a sense of desperation, as if things will never get better. This brings him back to reality, back to the world were life begins and ens. When relief is seated and not mobing, all seems to stop. " This time though, at the end of the stanza instead of making sense, the speakers' mind is going numb. The vicious cycle of life will always continue just as it is reflected in the poem.
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