I Felt a Funeral in my Brain

The poem "I Felt a Funeral in my Brain" by Emily Dickinson, begins talking about the great loss that the narrator suffers. In the poem, I think that she is having a funeral for her brain. She is coming to the consensus that she is losing her mind. Dickinson is saying that her mind has left her, similarly to how the mind leaves the body once they have passed away. The poem implies that Dickinson had been alienating herself, but the funeral has allowed her to be the person that she wants to be. The poem implies that she was trapped in her mind. It implies that what she was thinking consumed her life. But now that her mind has "died", she is set free. "And then I heard them lift a box" (Dickinson, 9) refers to her being set free from her alienation and from herself. She was finally able to answer the questions that had been consuming her. When the poem says "And finished-knowing...," (Dickinson, 20) it shows that she is now truly at peace and ready to break away from herself and stop alienating herself.