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Poet: Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson Art)
Poem: 280.
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
Poem of the Day:
Jan 24 2001
Comment 19 of 19, added on October 22nd, 2009 at 1:38 AM.
I think this poem is about man's eternal struggle between rationality and faith. Our instinctive rationality fights, fights, fights with knowledge, knowing, logic against faith, faith in what you ask? Faith in God, in the Divine, in anything outside our perception of knowledge. At the end of the poem she plunges right into a world of faith, of 'not knowing' any longer. There is no more logic or reason keeping her from freeing the shackles of rationality on her mind, and she is free to have faith.
beeter from United States
Comment 18 of 19, added on June 23rd, 2008 at 2:10 PM.
i can't really figure out what this poem is talking about. i kinda have a feeling that she is dead in this poem????
natalie from United States
Comment 17 of 19, added on March 29th, 2008 at 6:24 PM.
this poem fills me with fright; whatever its theme is: madness, death, pain, it is pervaded by a gothic sense and is chilling to read. probably i identify with the speaker in this poem but it renders a psychic state so dramatically that it becomes chilling!
imen
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I think this poem is about man's eternal struggle between rationality and faith. Our instinctive rationality fights, fights, fights with knowledge, knowing, logic against faith, faith in what you ask? Faith in God, in the Divine, in anything outside our perception of knowledge. At the end of the poem she plunges right into a world of faith, of 'not knowing' any longer. There is no more logic or reason keeping her from freeing the shackles of rationality on her mind, and she is free to have faith.
beeter from United States