I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
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"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" is a lyric poem by Emily Dickinson that vividly depicts psychological anguish and the disintegration of consciousness through the extended metaphor of an internal funeral.
Statements (49)
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| instanceOf |
lyric poem
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poem → |
| author |
Emily Dickinson
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| centralMetaphor |
internal funeral
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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| depicts |
disintegration of consciousness
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inner experience of breakdown → |
| firstLine |
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
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| form |
short lyric
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| genre |
metaphysical poetry
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psychological poetry → |
| imagery |
funeral imagery
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motion imagery → sound imagery → |
| language |
English
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| lineCount |
20
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| literaryDevice |
alliteration
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enjambment → paradox → personification → |
| literaryMovement |
American poetry
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| literaryPeriod |
19th-century literature
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| meter |
common meter
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| narrativePerspective |
first person
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| narrator |
unnamed speaker
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| posthumousPublication |
true
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| publicationStatusDuringAuthorLife |
unpublished in author’s lifetime
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| punctuationFeature |
frequent dashes
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| rhymeScheme |
irregular
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| structure |
five stanzas
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| studiedIn |
American literature courses
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poetry analysis courses → |
| symbol |
Boots of Lead
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Plank in Reason → drum-like beating → falling through worlds → mourners → |
| theme |
consciousness
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death → isolation → madness → mental disintegration → psychological anguish → suffering → the limits of reason → |
| tone |
claustrophobic
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introspective → somber → |
| uses |
extended metaphor
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I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
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Emily Dickinson
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