I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (340)
By Emily Dickinson
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading - treading - till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through -
And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a Drum -
Kept beating - beating - till I thought
My mind was going numb -
And then I heard them lift a Box
And creak across my Soul
With those same Boots of Lead, again,
Then Space - began to toll,
As all the Heavens were a Bell,
And Being, but an Ear,
And I, and Silence, some strange Race,
Wrecked, solitary, here -
And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down -
And hit a World, at every plunge,
Vendler Grid
Meaning: Dying inside. | |
Antecedent Scenario: Goes hand in hand with dying inside but different because also talking about a funeral. | |
Structural Parts: 4 lines. | |
Climax: Hearing a creak. | |
Other Parts: The words all go hand in hand. |
Skeleton: 20 lines | |
Content Genre- games: ---- | |
Tone: Sadness & despair. | |
Agency: --- | |
Roads Not Taken: not ending the poem, making us think about it ourselves. | |
Speech Acts: Saying "And" | |
Outer and Inner Structural Forms: Uses "-" a lot. | |
Imagination: I picture a head with a casket and someone banging on it trying to get out. |
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