Understanding "I felt a funeral in my brain"

[@AntipodalBrink]

The first time I read the poem, it reminded me of the theory of positive disintegration. It's the idea that a person's psyche can hit a crisis and collapse, but then it rebuilds itself with the advantage of having all the personal experience leading up to and including that collapse. The result is a personality more harmonious, strong, creative, and more prone to self-guidance. Even the collapse can be exhilarating--"[hitting] a World, at every plunge". Hence the "positive" in "positive disintegration".

[@SixMinuteScholar]

Miss Emily, our awesome American poet from the 1800's! Here I explore one of her poems. Hope you enjoy it!

[@dinmakerjr]

Very helpful comprehension of the poem for the Irish Leaving certificate .

[@SixMinuteScholar]

:-)

[@XtOfjeChristopheClaeys]

I like your different approach to this poem... !! Things are often not what they seem... !!

[@anielson6152]

thank you! i’m reciting this poem for poetry out loud, and this helped me to better understand it

[@stephensevenpounder5447]

This is a poem about the transformation from one plane of existence to another. This is a precursor to her eventual, inevitable end.

[@shvideo1]

I love your interpretation and explanation. It is very educational and interesting. Thank you for taking the time to share with us.

[@MM-ge2xe]

Amazing she took positivity from a death depressed poem i really like ur thoughts mam🙏😊

[@protodosto]

great analysis, love this video. does anyone care to agree or disagree with my reading that this poem could be about the increasing apostasies that the Enlightenment generated? here we could see the funeral as representative of traditional religious ontologies which are undermined by empiricism, reason, etc ("sense was breaking through"). The crisis of epistemes and meaning that are entailed by this radical shift in the structures of intersubjective social life causes the narrator to become painstakingly aware of their solipsim and isolation. The final lines of the poem - "Finished knowing - then - " could be a reflection of the decay of reverential authority which is sustained by faith. In this way, I don't stricly read the poem as depressing; sure, the narrator's crisis is alarming, and perhaps this transformation is not one they wish to undergo yet recognise they must, yet I feel a sense of hope at the end of the poem that the next mode of "knowing" will be a richly meaningful one for the narrator. Would love to hear any other thoughts on this masterful poem.

[@deborahgottner-grant637]

Excellent interpretation, one that can counter my students'. I love, too, that you provide MLA citation information. 😊

[@SixMinuteScholar]

Good luck with your students, fellow teacher! :-)

[@roberthughes6919]

thanks for your interpretation

[@radhabhaav9217]

Thank you so much for revealing the meaning of hers

[@salvatorevinco]

"Sense" could be understand as one of the meanings of anc. Greek word 'Logos', which is Christ (1st chapter of St.John Evangelia).

[@abdullahimran3720]

Can you answer this question: the tense of the speaker of this poem is very unusual. What is the paradox that exists within the subject matter and the speakers voice?

[@abdullahimran3720]

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[@santinoantonio]

Excellent job!

[@jordanallen3098]

thank you so much

[@nisrineshaarani3763]

thank u

[@OmarFaruk-bz4gw]

Tnx

[@sarabrown7689]

I think you're over analyzing. I believe this poem is exactly what it says. Somehow this woman is dead but hasn't accepted it yet. As she experiences her funeral she finally understands and accepts it.

[@user-qf8ij7dn4h]

Queen

[@KrishnaKumar-kk8ve]

Hello! Your are very near to Indian philosophy.If you want to know more about it text me.And thank you for translation

[@justabot477]

Ugh why did you have to be all spiritual and shit couldn’t just break it down normally

[@aesthetic3451]

James Dooner I love how she broke it down

[@TaxingIsThieving]

Because it is