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• Conveying Complex Mental Processes in Concrete Language

  Moran is an educator specializing in American and British literature. In this essay, he examines the ways in which Dickinson faces the difficulty of conveying complex mental processes in concrete language.

• Narrative Structure

  Goldfarb has a Ph.D. in English and has published two books on the Victorian author William Makepeace Thackeray. In the following essay, he seeks to illuminate the obscurity of “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” in part by considering its narrative structure.

• The Death of Reason in I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain

  Pineiro is a published poet and the supervisor of English at Montgomery High School in New Jersey. In the following essay, he considers the death of reason in “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain.”

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7. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain: Essays and Criticism
   1. Conveying Complex Mental Processes in Concrete Language
   2. Narrative Structure
   3. The Death of Reason in I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain
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