in the advance of a funeral march. The use of "I" instead of "we" or another pronoun, allows the writer to create an intimate first person portrayal of the struggle and subsequent, suffering of the speaker. Images of a funeral procession reappear in the work; however, it is her diction that ironically brings life to these images of death. Her collective use of images and diction in "I felt a funeral in my Brain," provides an overpowering vision of not only the funeral procession, but also the procession of the mind to instability.
             Through Dickinson's work, the written word possesses its own life separate from that of the speaker. She regarded words as ind
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