Created by katie.browell
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I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,And Mourner to and froKept treading - treading - till it seemedThat Sense was breaking through - And when they all were seated,A Service, like a Drum -Kept beating - beating - till i thoughtMy Mind was going numb - And then I heard then lift a BoxAnd creak across my SoulWith those same Boots of Lead, again,Then Space - began to toll,As all the Heavens were a Bell,And Being, but an Ear,And I, and Silence, some strange RaceWrecked, solitary, here - And then a Plank in Reason, broke,And I dropped down, and down - And hit a World, at every plunge,And Finished knowing - then -
Rhyming Scheme - First four stanzas are Exact rhyme of ABCB 'fro' 'though -' (19th Century New England rhyme) 'Drum - ' 'numb -' 'Soul' 'toll' 'Ear' 'here -' Within the final stanza it becomes a slant/half rhyme as reason breaks as the speaker plunges into despair - therefore the rhyme pattern breaks down. 'down' '- then -'Devices - Alternation 'Treading - treading-' 'beating - beating - ' Oppressive, Sibilence 'Silence, some strange' - Unsettling Metaphor 'Heavens were a Bell' 'Plank in Reason' -Entire metaphor of a 'funeral'Simile ' A Service, like a Drum' Mood - Despairing, Oppressive, ControlledSetting - Internal, Space/HeavensCharacters - Messages - Themes - Death and Burial, Suffering - possible Depression or Madness, Isolation
Funeral - the death of something, someone close? Something within her?
Constant relentless sound within her head, the mourns push her down
Repetition, aliteration
Simlie
Repetition, aliteration
Numb and distant from the constant repeating sounds?
Repeated 'M' sound creates a numb feeling
Repetition
Sound/Hearing is all that is left
Sibilence
Metaphor - Reason is fragile
Unfinished, unknown
She made some discovery upon reacting the afterlife - however as we are the living we cannot know what
Auditory
A mental breakdown
A mental experience likened to a funeral, a psychological death becomes merged with a physical one
Plunge into despair
- Focuses upon the effects of the experience/cause - like many of Dickinson's poems- Links to the 'indescribable' nature of Dickinson's themes
Mo
Mounting pressure and tension, oppressive
Repetitive 'B' sound creates a thumbing sound - creating an oppressive atmosphere'Brain' 'beating' 'Box' 'boots' 'Bell' 'Being' 'broke'
Simile that reflects the sound the poem is creating with its repetition
Events are suggested though intense sounds'treading' ' beating' 'creak'ingSpace tolls, the speaker becomes only an Ear
Synaesthetic - Space tolls, all is only understood though sound
Speaker is isolated from everything and everyone
No support, no rationality
Loss of conscience, knowledge, understanding
Decent into madness, describing a funeral though the dead
Life to Death - Sanity to Insanity
No longer human - dead or mad?
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