Analysis Of Dickinson's "I Felt A Funeral In My Brain"

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across her soul with feet which seem
encased in lead. Am intensification of attack on the mind by bringing
together images of sound and weight is suggested. She hears the mourners
as they lift the coffin and begin to move, and she feels their feet which
seem to be encased in lead.
In stanza four, the figure is continued in the sound of a tolling
bell. The heaven seems to have become a great bell which is ringin, and
all creation responds as though it were an ear. In the last two lines,
she introduces the images of a shipwreck. The poet personifies silence,
and says that it seemed as though she and silence had been stranded
together, thus consulting an unusual race.
In the last stanza, the poet compares reason to a plank of wood which
breaks as a result of being overstrained. The image is continued with the
poet dropping away from this broken plank into a universe filled with new
worlds. It suggests that the mental anguish has become too much, and that
the sense ...

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