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I Felt A Funeral, in My Brain, (340) by Emily Poetry Foundation

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I Felt A Funeral, in My Brain, (340) by Emily Poetry Foundation

This document provides the poem "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain," by Emily Dickinson. It includes the full text of the poem along with notes about the poem and its publication information. Additional sections offer related audio and links to more poems by Emily Dickinson on the Poetry Foundation website.

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POETRY FOUNDATION

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, (340)


BY E M I LY D I C K I N S O N

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,


And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading - treading - till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through -

And when they all were seated,


A Service, like a Drum -
Kept beating - beating - till I thought
My mind was going numb -

And then I heard them lift a Box


And creak across my Soul
With those same Boots of Lead, again,
Then Space - began to toll,

As all the Heavens were a Bell,


And Being, but an Ear,
And I, and Silence, some strange Race,
Wrecked, solitary, here -

And then a Plank in Reason, broke,


And I dropped down, and down -
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing - then -

Notes:
Note to POL students: The inclusion or omission of the numeral in
the title of the poem should not affect the accuracy score. It is
optional during recitation.

Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of


Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum
Edition, Ralph W. Franklin, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap
Press of Harvard University Press, © 1998 by the President and
Fellows of Harvard College. © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the
President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition (Harvard


University Press, 1983)

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