Essays on I Felt a Funeral in My Brain

It is difficult to imagine how we will one day die and what we will undergo through this process but in Emily Dickinson’s poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” (Dickinson 42), it encaptures the complexity of death beautifully in only 20 lines. Like…

The poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (340)” by the infamous Emily Dickinson suggests many topics such as entering a world of a psychotic episode, experiencing the death and/or burial of something within the mind, an explanation of the feeling of self obliteration,…

Introduction The unconscious refers to experiences that are beyond one’s control and that occur without one being aware. Within those with mental illnesses, many people feel disconnected from themselves and begin to feel a deep sense of loneliness and anxiety. During one’s fall into madness,…

Introduction A theme of the descent into madness is developed both in Emily Dickenson’s “I Felt a Funeral in my Brain” and in Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper. Each story gradually depicts progressing insanity of its main character; which is faster in “I Felt a…

Introduction Emily Dickinson’s, I Felt a Funeral in my Brain is an extremely somber poem which portrays a person who is going insane. The general overview of the poem is that there is a funeral being taken place in her brain. There is a funeral…

Poetry Cross Reference in And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” by Emily Dickinson directly correlates with the novel And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard. First and foremost, throughout the novel, the main character, Emily Beam, is fascinated with,…