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…
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Author
Will Walton
Genre
Young adult fiction
Publication date
2018
Major Characters
The poet-speaker, The mourners
Plot
The poem conveyes a terrifying sense of losing one's self in the chaos of the unconscious. The reader experiences the speaker's descending madness and the horror most of us feel about going crazy.