i Felt A Funeral, In My Brain :: essays research papers

In my opinion, Emily Dickinson as a transcendentalist used her poetry to describe the process of transcendental conjecture, particularly the meditation of death. In this poem she tries to allow us to expierience our true disposition by entering directly into our conscious. The poem is a deep seeking of the nature of death, the death that is a process of expansion and transformation from solidarity to a spaciousness. When she says "I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro, kept treading, treading till it seemed that sense was shift through... " She focuses on the sensation of cosmos in the body, feeling the bodys substantiality and solidity, and the heaviness caused by gravity pulling on its very substance. When she says ..."And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul, With those alike boots of lead, again the space began to toll..." I count this to be an expression of the ken a "Light corpse" expieriences, seeing , tasting, touching, and the like. The body that is within the overweight or outer body. "As all the heavens were a bell, and being but an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race, wrecked, solitary here" I believe is a reference to the phase where the "Light Body" becomes seperated from the "Heavy Body" and everything floats publish. "And then a plank in reason broke, and I dropped down, and down, and flash a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then-" I believe this to be gently and gradually dying and into the light and free of knowing. Thinking that all that comes to mind is hoar and are just old thoughts, and we do not have to hold to them. Giving a novel birth to ourselves, to observe peace, mercy, kindness, and healing the pain we suffer from.