Elaboration Over I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain

Elaboration over “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” This piece of literature in a sense could be terrifying for the reader, due to the extreme down to detail madness described by the speaker. Just by reading the title one could assume a dark and sinister piece of work is about to be read, and Emily Dickinson did just that. Dickinson was able to correlate everyday actions to much more profound meanings; with this mastered ability of hers, the reader could share the same obscure thoughts as the speaker. Even the core message of the poem itself can be relatable to all who have had to endure some sort of ungraspable stress, which in a sense is a real life nightmare, because it is always in one’s mind. The deeper the reader gets into the poem, the …show more content…
The speaker’s reason for this is their inability to bear with the feeling of unconscious. An immediate association that can be made with a funeral is death and makes an applicable connotation. If the reader decides go to a longer extent they can also take note of the formal type of event a funerals tend to be, which in turn expresses common rules and procedures that are followed; however that suggestion of control and order is what the speaker lacks ironically resulting in their inner demise. This loss of rationality is what could threaten the speaker, furthermore funerals represent going from one state to another, which can be parallel to the speakers sane state versus their insanity. Although the reader is able to make up all these metaphors and connotations based of the idea of a funeral, that’s what the term stays as, an idea because the speaker is not observing a funeral, but instead feeling it. The closer the reader gets to the end of the poem the more they can see the self-division the poet is expressing which will most likely lead to dooming chaos. Immediately after mentioning the idea of a funeral in her brain, Dickinson gives us the …show more content…
It does seem that Emily Dickinson has left things deliberately vague here, and perhaps that is part of her point: she is talking of the difficulty of knowing and understanding. But although there are difficulties, it does seem that the poem is telling readers that the difficulties can be worked through. At the end, the poem seems to take readers to a better place although a lot depends on the meaning of the phrase "Finished knowing" in the last line. By "Finished knowing," does the speaker mean she can no longer know anything (a rather negative conclusion) or does she mean she now knows everything she needs to know, that is, that she has finally figured things out (a much more positive suggestion)?
Although Emily Dickinson has a lot to do with American literature it’s fair to she is consistently unusual. This happens to be one of her many poems, but this one sticks out due the inconclusive conclusion of the poem. It is up to the reader to determine what they believe is the actual fate of the speaker, despite that Dickinson’s constant metaphors proved she was a master of her unusual