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
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Funeral Brain, Heaven Earth's, , life death, Emily Dickinson's, speaker hears, race wrecked, seated relief, sense speaker, funeral brain, reflected poem, vicious cycle, boots lead, mind numb,
Approximate Word count = 1070
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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