Essays on I Felt a Funeral in My Brain

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 service...

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, they...

The aim of this essay is to show and analyze the differences and similarities that Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman have had in connection with the symbol of death, as they have expressed this subject in their poems, not only in terms of structure they...

Born and raised in Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson grew up in an affluent Puritan family. Although her parents had three children, they were not involved with them. Dickinson noted that her dad was “too busy with his briefs” and wrote a friend “I never had a...

Dickinson’s Death in Life In Emily Dickinson’s “I Felt A Funeral In My Brain,” Dickinson describes a funeral taking place within her brain. In the past 124 years since its publication, this poem has received much debate about the poem’s meaning. Some believe that Dickinson...

Emily Dickinson portrays death In vastly different ways in “I could not stop for death” and “I felt a funeral in my brain”. “Because I could not stop for death” is a happier, much lighter hearted portrayal, with the speaker entering deaths carriage and travelling...

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 Funeral...

Whether or not one is aware of it, literary canons permeate society on many levels and have undoubtedly shaped everyone’s world view. The term “literary canon” refers to a body of books, narratives and other texts considered to be the most important and influential of...

Norwegian painter Edvard Munch once expressed that ‘Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.’ Similar to Munch’s thought, literary critics use the collapse and mental senselessness as a central theme to draw...