Emily Dickenson's I Felt A Funeral In My Brain

In this poem “I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain”, Emily Dickinson seems to be suffering a traumatic experience or situation at that time, difficult to control inside her brain. She attempts to explain this painful emotion through this poem using a variety of literary techniques that include metaphor, symbolism, personification and others. It is clear that Dickinson is not using her sense of reasoning in this poem, she seems gone from the world around her, as if her mind state is deteriorating and she is going from sanity to insanity. From my point of view of the poem, Emily seems to be trying to convey readers her own tragic experience from the perspective of a dead person that is still able to use some of her senses and is conscious the whole time narrating the poem inside a coffin. However, it 's still not clear whether the speaker is living or dead, but she is definitely afraid and disturbed of what will happen when she finally loses her sanity.

Emily Dickinson’s poem, “After great pain, a formal feeling comes-“is a profound portrayal of the debilitating process of grief human beings undergo when confronted with a horrific tragedy. The response to that ultimate pain is the predominance of numbness, “After great pain, a formal feeling comes-/The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs-“(1-2). This is a poem that must be read slowly to become saturated in the melancholy, the dehumanization of suffering as it affects each aspect of the body without reference to the chaotic emotionality of it. The abundance of metaphors within Dickinson’s poem provides the means to empathize the necessity of numbness. It is also through the use of punctuation and capitalization, depicting the presence of a

In Emily Dickinson’s poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” Dickinson gives the indication that the speaker could be descending into a world of madness. No one could conceive of becoming conscious and finding themselves trapped inside of a coffin, in the midst of a funeral service and realize it is for them.

Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs is a crime fiction book, where, a forensic anthropologist, Temperance Brennan tries to unveil the identity of three skeletons that were found in the basement of a pizza parlor in Montreal, Canada. Brennan works with homicide detectives Luc Claudel and his partner, Michel Charbonneau, and Andrew Ryan, who is also her lover. Throughout the book, both Brennan and Claudel doubted each other’s competence to solve the case. According to Brennan institution, she believes that the three skeletons might be recent, however, Claudel speculates it to be century old due to findings of three antique buttons near their bodies. As a result, Claudel puts very little effort in this case, whereas, Brennan is determined to identify the year of death so to validate her inspection and to drew attention of Claudel and her other colleagues to this case. In the process of solving this investigation, she finds herself dragged to other homicides that were affiliated with the three skeleton remains.

Emily Dickinson is well-known due to the fact that she uses an immense amount of death in her poetry; she is also known as being reclusive and death-obsessed. Although other poets don’t typically use large amounts of death in his or her own poetry, Dickinson decided to take her own path in order to get her point across; meanwhile, some found her obsession with death rather disturbing. On the other hand, death could be interpreted through various forms of symbolism. For example, death can symbolize things such as equality, religion, and journeys. Additionally, death can be used to express the loss of a loved one or even an internal loss of yourself, such as despair. Her poems about death

There are 14.8 million American adults between the ages of 15 to 44 who experience depression in some point and time throughout their life(“Depression”). Although depression is a word that is commonly misused 14.8 million people have experienced some form of depression, weather It may be major depression or mild depression. Often more than not, individuals confuse the days of unhappiness and the lack of desire to function with the rest of the world with major depression. When analyzing the poem Marks by Linda Pastan and the poem Myth by Natasha Tretheway I notice key features of a depressed individual. Pastan and Tretheway portray each of their characters as a depressed individual; because they focus so keenly on their unhappiness with their lives, and even suicide. Many people will argue that poetry and writing does not help with the effects of depression, but I disagree and I will explain why and how each author may be battling with their own form of depression as well as how writing these poems has empowered them and also given them the ability to handle depression.

In the first stanza the speaker talks about a funeral in her brain which indicates she could be imagining a funeral of her own. The speaker mentions that in her imagination she sees mourners coming to the funeral to mourn her death. It almost seems as if she were trying to describe the mourners as if they were in disbelief but the reality was slowly hitting them. Emily Dickinson used the rhyme scheme ABAB in this stanza. There is only one type of metaphor in this stanza which is when the speaker says “I felt a funeral in my brain”(1).

In the poem "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain" Emily Dickinson exposes a person's intense anguish and suffering as they sink into a state of extreme madness. The poem is a carefully constructed analysis of the speaker's own mental experience. Dickinson uses the image of a funeral-service to symbolize the death of the speaker's sanity. The poem is terrifying for the reader as it depicts a realization of the collapse of one's mental stability, which is horrifying for most. The reader experiences the horror of the speaker's descending madness as the speaker's mind disintegrates and loses its grasp on reality. "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain,"

Suffering is a heart wrenching experience that causes great grief to an individual. Suffering can be found in many scenarios. A lost love or an unbearable pain caused by death. Suffering is much more intense than just plain and simple pain. Nobody wants to go through suffering it is a pain like no other. Emily Dickinson, a wonderful poet, wrote many poems about love and death. One poem she wrote about love is “If You Were Coming in the Fall”. This poem is all about waiting for the person you love to show up but they never do. She also wrote a poem about death titled “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain” which is about slowly becoming ill in the brain. Both of her poems are about very different topics but they have the same theme of suffering. The speakers in both poems are going through some sort of suffering either because of someone else or by things they can not control. In “ If You Were Coming in the Fall” and “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain” written by Emily Dickinson, the author uses similes, repetition, and imagery to help convey the theme of suffering.

How many movies or television series display drugs and or alcohol? Out of these movies, which ones accurately portray the effects these drugs have on the user, or do they take them to the extremes? Well, in the move Requiem for a Dream, there were two individuals who were addicted to two different drugs, heroin and weight loss pills. Also, they showed side effects to these drugs, but how accurately did they portrayed these effects?

She would not talk to anyone, she even runs away whenever she see people around. Nevertheless, she tried to commit suicide at the certain point but she didn't succeed with that. In my mind, I think she was depressed or was having a behavior disorder because of her abnormal attitude. However, in the Emily Dickinson poem I believe that this lady’s behavior illustrates a good example of the poem in a way. In the poem, "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain" Dickinson seems to be the illustration of a delusion of a person; thus, a view of what happens to someone when they died. This poem also tells us about the existence of heaven and hell and a personal struggle with someone to come to terms with their own mortal existence. In the poem, Dickinson describes "feeling a funeral in her brain" as a metaphor for her own personal struggling and the reference to "sense breaking through" which tells us that only through death can a person ever understand or value their life. Also, she made a similarity of the word "mind," which is associated with intelligence, from "brain" in the first stanza. The funeral started out as a physical experience which literally implies that sometimes you might going through certain things that might even make u plan to commit suicide as the lady from the story planned to

Dickinson’s poem " I felt a Funeral, in my Brain", is a prime example of complicity embodied by simple style and language. In this piece, Dickinson chronicles psychic fall. The use of many different devices such as sound, repetition, and metaphors, all help to develop the theme of the poem.

In the poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” Emily Dickinson uses symbolism to convey some sort of mental funeral that the speaker is experiencing. The funeral image that Dickinson depicts in the first line of the poem: “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” does not literally represent a funeral, but it is used to symbolism a mental breakdown and agony that the speaker is going through. By using this symbolism, the speaker is imagining the death of old ways of thought. Dickinson writes that when the funeral service was “like a Drum—“ (Dickinson 43) and that it “Kept beating—beating—till I thought My Mind was going numb—“ (43), leaving readers believing that the speaker is going mad. By depicting this image, Dickinson reveals that with the death of old thought; there is some sort of numbness or pain that is necessary to “progress to a better state” (Goldfarb 2). By repeating the beating sound two times, along with the rhyming sequence in the previous lines of the poem, Dickinson is stressing the numbness and the importance of it.

Emily Dickinson was thought to have an obsession with death due to her many poems and letters that contain the subject. In the later stages of her life, many of her friends and family members died. There is a window in the house where she lived that looked over the cemetery where she was a witness to many funerals that occurred. To see such a repeated reminder of loved ones lost and the presence of death in her backyard, her thoughts frequently turned to death. Poems like 280, “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” (87) shows a clear insight into how she was affected by death. In that poem, Emily Dickinson wrote about a funeral service that she must have witnessed. “And Mourners to and fro/ Keep treading – treading – till it seemed/ That Sense was breaking through”(87). Funerals can be very hard to digest for the people attending. From the few funerals I have attended, people are

In your poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain”, I felt your sadness when I read the poem. I knew it was already going to be a sad and depressing poem by the title, but I did not expect it to be this dark. It started to get more and more dark to me after the line “My mind was going numb-”(8). At that point I felt your sadness and how you were breaking down slowly every minute while being there. I know it must have been hard to write this poem and maybe that is why you ended it like you did. You seemed to just let it hang there and not finished it. The reason why might be because it was too hard for you to write about this moment and how you felt. It would have been the same way for me too. I always have trouble writing about something that