the loss
Emily Dickinson's poem entitled "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" is directed towards a death in the speaker's life. This death could have been a romantic love that had left him or her behind. It seems that they go through a type of struggle that is sort of bound to them. The first line of the poem is "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain." This is the title of the piece because Dickinson did not title her work, so when it was published, the first line of each piece was used as the title. This line describes a complete mess in the speaker's mind. This so-called funeral is just tearing them apart. This funeral seems to be racing over and over in their mind. As the piece continues, there is talk about mourners going to and fro, who are treading and treading. It can be thought as these memories that are racing through their head. Mourners are those who express their grief or sorrow. So these mourners are the ones at the funeral. Not saying that Dickinson is the speaker in this piece, but who ever it is they have these thoughts pressed in their head.
This piece is a wonderful example of her work. These boots being the one's of the pallbearers walking the casket away. This means that the poet can only hear them now, instead of this person always being around and near to them, Heaven being a place too damn far away. This speaker can only begin to describe the pain going on inside of them. "And a Plank in Reason, broke, and I dropped down, and down," stated the poet. The speaker says that it creaks across their soul. It seems as though the poet does not want to distance himself or herself from this person, but fate is talking them away. This can allow the poet to know what is going on with them, and maybe comprehend it as well. Maybe this might have made him or her feel uncomfortable in this kind of situation. " Could this be a good place for his or her lost love to go, but still too distant from the speaker? Only the speaker knows. It goes on to say that they "hit the world. Emily Dickinson was a wonderful American poet and it was unfortunate that a lot of her work was not discovered until later on.
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