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    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain"
    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain"
    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain"
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    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain"

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    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781535825344
    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain"

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      I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain

      Emily Dickinson

      1861

      Introduction

      I felt a Funeral, in my Brain was first published in 1896. Because Emily Dickinson lived a life of great privacy and only published a handful of poems in her lifetime, the exact year of its composition is unknown; most scholars agree that it was written around 1861.

      Like many of Dickinson’s other poems, I felt a Funeral, in my Brain explores the workings of the human mind under stress and attempts to replicate the stages of a mental breakdown through the overall metaphor of a funeral. The common rituals of a funeral are used by Dickinson to mark the stages of the speaker’s mental collapse until she faces a destruction that no words can articulate. As the metaphorical funeral begins and progresses, the speaker’s mind grows numb until her final remark stops in mid-sentence. The poem is a staple in Dickinson’s canon and reflects her ability to replicate human consciousness in a controlled poetic form. Like her poems After great pain, a formal feeling comes—, ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers— and I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—, I felt a Funeral, in my Brain uses concrete language and imagery to explore abstract

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