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15 comments:
This was a very interesting poem to read, and its connection to the theme of youth and innocence was also very intriguing. I think that it is show the difference of the state of mind through aging, and that the narrator is both observing and experiencing this "funeral" until she finally reaches the final stage, in this case death.
-Chandranauth
I don't feel as if this has to with her being old or close to death. I connect the poem with one experiencing the death of another. The ''death'' has changed her outlook on life. That this funeral and her death is unavoidable.
)Morresia(
I think the beginning of the poem shows a innoncence that she has. As you keep reading the innoncence is fading and it is bringing her into a sense of experience. By the end of the poem she has gained that experience and is seeing the world in a different light. She has now gained experience and it is time for the "funeral" of her innocent self.
-Jenessa
I felt a funeral in my brain by Emily Dickinson pg.134
As the narrator spoke about the funeral it kind of reminded me of a headache of some sort and how as any other headache the pain plays a consent beat over n over again. But as the narrator continued and then a plank in reason,broke. As if one were to take pain medication and the pain stop. But in the poem the funeral came to an end
this poem is very interesting because i had to think about what the writer was saying. and when i caught on to what was going on i thought that the author was creative because she wrote i the poem in a way that you wouldnt understand at first glimpse and you had to think about what she was really saying.
-Jovaughn
This poem wasnt really that interesting so i had to read more than once to find a understanding of the poem. I feel as if the poem was about the death of her innocence and the funreal was takin place within herself and at the end of the poem the reality of the real world hit her.
-richard ;]
This poem illustrates the narrators transition from innocence to experience. The "funeral" symbolizes the death of her youth and innocence. The line "That sense was breaking through_..." shows her gain of knowledge through her new-found experience.
My favorite line is "....Plank in reason,broke,/And I dropped down...", because it clearly illustrates the narrator's break from innocence.
--Regina
This poem was a bit confusing at first but i read it again, and it seem as if a child growing up into her teenage years. It seems as if she is burring her childish ways and childish mentality. She could be comparing her teenage years as being in heaven because she may has more freedom.. as in being able to do more things than she was able to to as a child. so she was conducting a funeral in her mind because she cant really have a funeral for her innocence.
~AiMEE~
Well i have to agree with my fellow classmates when they wrote that they had to read this poem more than once. The poem tells that the author has felt a funeral in the author's brain. Basically the funeral is for the author's innocence. As the funeral goes on, the poem shows more of the death author's innocence. Also i think there was a lost of faith in the poem because in the forth stanza it tells that the heavens were a bell but yet the author is in silence.
and by the way this is cyril
:p
This piece fits the topic that we have been discussing "innocence to experience" pretty well. This piece wasnt fully clear to me but, i believe it has to deal with a female who is realizing her life changes. The funeral in her brain means her innocence had died, and she is now growing up and crossing into adulthood.
-Roy Lang, III
I dont feel as though this poem connects to innocence as my classmates stated. Emily Dickinson is crazy and was in her room most of her life which caused her to lose her mind. Everything she knew within her was dying which robbed her not by her innocence but her experience and all she knew was the funeral death and cementary
Teriq wrote that
Personally I think the poem dwells into the author's mind as it goes into chaos. It speaks about her fear of dying in spiritual sense. Not knowing why or what happened to her, she seems to be viewing her own funeral but at the same time she is inside the coffin. Which adds to the point in which the poem may have been inspired by a nightmare she had.
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