Essays on I Felt a Funeral in My Brain

Every poet has its own main theme that he or she carries along their whole literary life. Some of them focus on positive aspects of our life, such as love, family, friendships etc. However, there are those who see this world in not so bright colors. For example, such poets talk about grief, sorrow, loss etc. Emily Dickinson is one of such poets. She was a lady who focused on the negativity and quite upsetting things that happen in our life. The metaphor of death is common for both of her poems “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” ...

Introduction

The poems, The Charge of the Light Brigade written by Lord Alfred Tennyson and I Felt a Funeral in My Brain written by Emily Dickinson have a similar theme. These two poems talk about the theme of death in two different settings. Emily Dickinson’s poem, I Felt a Funeral in My Brain, is an allegorical description of the feeling experienced by the narrator that the normal function of her brain had come to an end, the similar way a person’s normal function of their bodies end when they die. Therefore, the funeral in her brain can be explained as a metaphor for ...

I Felt a Funeral in my Brain’ by Emily Dickinson – defence in favour of the author

‘I Felt a Funeral in my Brain’ is possibly one of the most powerful poems written by Emily Dickinson and it describes emargination by townsfolk on the issue of thought and unhappiness. Sadness and reclusivity are issues which often crop up in Emily Dickinson poems and this one is really no exception.

The speaker as such is Dickinson herself and if he is brooding and unhappy then she definitely should not be in the least punished for her actions. Unhappiness is a state of mind and could be brought about by various factors which include a situation where home is creating a tense ...