Poem Explication on “I Felt a Funeral in my Brain”

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Poem Explication on “I Felt a Funeral in my Brain”
Introduction
Emily Dickinson is one of the best authors in the United States of America. The author has written many poems containing some uniqueness, making her one of the outstanding poets. Most of Emily’s poems are associated with some bit of spirituality, which is assumed to have resulted from her Christian life discovery, which occurred during her period of growth (Kirk 6). Among the various poems authored by Emily Dickinson, "I Felt a Funeral in my Brain" is one of the interesting poems taking the 280th position in his poem writing list, that the reader would enjoy. However, just like other writers, the poem contains several words with hidden meaning, which would require a keen mind grasp their meaning. Analyzing the possible interpretation of the poem, it has got five stanzas with almost each, through metaphors, communicates a message that builds on ideas.
What the Poem is about
Following the poem "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain," one would think of the author is mourning for the death of somebody or some other death-related meaning. However, Emily Dickinson used this theme to illustrate how people sink into extreme madness whenever they are intensively anguished and in suffering. Notably, the entire poem was drafted from a careful analysis conducted basing on the speaker’s mental experience, which involved the use of funeral service images as a sign of communicating about the speaker’s sanity death. As a matter of fact, discovering that the poem points out the speaker's mental stability collapse seems to be a terrifying moment for the reader. Such comes in as the reader experiences the sadness for the speaker's mind descending into madness and losing the real grasp. Admittedly, this is because the noted experience in “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain,” as authored by Emily Dickinson ends up creating mind illusion to explains the speaker’s pain within the reader, by describing how the speaker is irritated in line with the tragic end of her existence.
Interpretation of First and Second Stanza
Defending the idea that “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain” contributes towards the construction of illusion in the reader’s mind, can be witnessed by the unstable experience faced by the reader when expressing the speaker’s pain. Undeniably, this can be located in stanzas one to two, where the speaker notes to be losing the stability sense. As compared to any normal human being who discovers a virus eating up his life, it is obvious that the person will do all that it takes to fight and resist such forces against his life. Similarly, the last line of the first stanza gives clear evidence of how the pressure of the speaker's sense was breaking through, though she seriously tried fighting for her sanity (Dickinson line5). In most cases, humans always interface a painful moment when struggling to clear a painful hazard from their lives, though they reach some extent and give up. Similarly, the author initiates confusing but best communicating metaphors, that is to say, “mourners” and “treading-treading” located within t...