poetry analysis- I felt a funeral in my brain by Emily Dickinson

1. Meaning- This individual has created a scenario in her brain where she’s falling into the abyss of insanity and can feel it devouring her through a well-crafted story in her subconscious.

2.  Antecedent Scenario- The speaker gives a clear picture of the scenario of a funeral and her mind in which I begins to have an ominous feeling.

3.  A Division into Structural Parts- Among the speakers thoughts she first hears the signs of insanity creeping over through the mourners, next to the weight of the led boots that cascade across the casket, she then hears the signs through the church bells and finally silence meaning the start of her descent as after this occurs the floor of her mind breaks.

4.  The Climax- The climax here is when the wooden floor of the speakers casket breaks after hearing silence and falls rapidly into the void of madness and then knows she has fallen into insanity

5.  The Other Parts- This Poem doesn’t exactly have any differing parts other than the speaker setting build up and then of course when the poem itself climaxes where the speak then knows she’s found insanity.

6.  Find the Skeleton- The tone itself stays descriptive with a sense mortal folly being imminent.

7.  Games the Poet Plays with the Content Genre- The mortal coil of reason poem.

8.  Tone- Once again I find the tone to be very descriptive with a sense of mortal folly being imminent.

9.  Agency- The agent would most likely be the speaker as she is the one who sets up the clear world in her mind through the course of the poem.

10.  Roads Not Taken- The poem itself could be blunter but I could not imagine it with a better premise because it would be less morbid if we knew what broke her mind and reason.

11.  Speech Act- "First, she criticized me”- She attacks you with the premise or the scenario.                                                                                                                      

 “Then she apologized”- Then apologizes through descriptions of what is happening among her mind.                                                                                                                                                       “Then she explained why she was upset”- She explains why she was upset through the casket floor breaking and hurtling her to horizons of insanity.                                                                                

  “finally she asked if we could still be friends."- She accepted the fact she knew she has lost all reason.