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    The poem uses the metaphor of a funeral procession to describe the speaker's descent into madness and irrationality. The speaker hears the mourners tread back and forth until their senses start to break through, and a drum-like service beats until their mind goes numb. They then hear a box being creaked across their soul, and as reason breaks, the speaker plunges into an unconscious state, finished with knowing. The three sentences summarize the key events and progression in the poem from rationality to irrationality experienced by the speaker.

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    The poem uses the metaphor of a funeral procession to describe the speaker's descent into madness and irrationality. The speaker hears the mourners tread back and forth until their senses start to break through, and a drum-like service beats until their mind goes numb. They then hear a box being creaked across their soul, and as reason breaks, the speaker plunges into an unconscious state, finished with knowing. The three sentences summarize the key events and progression in the poem from rationality to irrationality experienced by the speaker.

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    I Felt A Funeral in My Brain

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    The poem uses the metaphor of a funeral procession to describe the speaker's descent into madness and irrationality. The speaker hears the mourners tread back and forth until their senses start to break through, and a drum-like service beats until their mind goes numb. They then hear a box being creaked across their soul, and as reason breaks, the speaker plunges into an unconscious state, finished with knowing. The three sentences summarize the key events and progression in the poem from rationality to irrationality experienced by the speaker.

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    Theme: rationality to irrationality

    Uses calvinist hymn structure to mock


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    IfeltaFuneral,inmyBrain,(280)
    BYEMILYDICKINSON

    IfeltaFuneral,inmyBrain,
    AndMournerstoandfro
    Kepttreadingtreadingtillitseemed
    ThatSensewasbreakingthrough

    Andwhentheyallwereseated,
    AService,likeaDrum
    KeptbeatingbeatingtillIthought
    Mymindwasgoingnumb

    AndthenIheardthemliftaBox
    AndcreakacrossmySoul
    WiththosesameBootsofLead,again,
    ThenSpacebegantotoll,

    AsalltheHeavenswereaBell,
    AndBeing,butanEar,
    AndI,andSilence,somestrangeRace,
    Wrecked,solitary,here

    AndthenaPlankinReason,broke,
    AndIdroppeddown,anddown
    AndhitaWorld,ateveryplunge,
    AndFinishedknowingthen

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