Emily Dickinson was a great poet from the 19th century. During her lifetime only about a dozen out of the thousands of poems she wrote, were actually published. Later in life she spent the vast majority of her time in her bedroom fixating on the darker topics of the mind. Dickinson uses metaphors and stanzas to expand on mental illness and to better grasp death.
Emily Dickinson uses metaphors to help grasp the idea of death and put mental illnesses into perspective. In poem “340”, she compares sadness or depression to a funeral. In the first line she says “I felt a funeral, in my brain”, this comparison helps portray how she feels and how her thoughts affect her. In the second line she continues with this metaphor by saying “and Mourners
Emily Dickinson uses metaphors to help grasp the idea of death and put mental illnesses into perspective. In poem “340”, she compares sadness or depression to a funeral. In the first line she says “I felt a funeral, in my brain”, this comparison helps portray how she feels and how her thoughts affect her. In the second line she continues with this metaphor by saying “and Mourners