Life, death, and reincarnation are portrayed in Emily Dickinson's poem
"I Felt A Funeral In My Brain." The use of words associated with death gives the poem an ominous and dark persona. To add to this tone, important words that are strong in meaning are capitalized. At the beginning of this poem the feelings of grief and pain are evident. Throughout the rest of the poem, there was a strong sense that the speaker needs to make a choice between a world full of trouble and pain or a heaven that brings solitude and peace. This is all part of a vicious cycle. Sometimes when life doesn't turn out for the best, you need to wait until your cycle is up. This is reflected clearly at the end of the poem. The speaker lives life, passes away, and is reborn again into this world all throughout this poem's entirety. The first two words of this poem reveal strong feelings. The words "I felt" show that the speaker is talking about themselves. In line 1, the words "I felt a funeral in! my brain," sparks thoughts of death. The word "funeral" combined with the word "brain" can be simplified into the fact that death was inside the speaker. "and mourners to and fro/kept treading-treading-till it seemed/that sense was breaking through-"(2,3,4). Here the speaker is bothered by their inner death that keeps mourning throughout their head. The dashes between "treading-treading-,"allow a pause between the two words, inducing a long, repetitive treading. This repetition causes irritation. Finally, "sense was breaking through" (4). This simply means that the constant repetition is now starting to make sense. A feeling of relief has surfaced, but only for a short while. In the third stanza voices start to take over by opening a box. Shown in lines9 through 11, "and then I heard them lift a box/and creak across my soul/with those same boots of lead." This box is opened and all the problems and troubles lingering inside are released upon the speaker like "boots...