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        <title><![CDATA[In this poem, Dickinson relays metaphorically the possible mental...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this poem, Dickinson relays metaphorically the possible mental breakdown of a person's sanity.  It is a startling poem, and frightening, as she aggressively describes thoughts that incessantly barrage her brain, driving her crazy.  She feels her sanity dying, and hence, a funeral for her sanity is the theme of the poem.
As with all poems, the lines are open to interpretation, as long as you can support your opinion with the text.  In the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain", what do these lines mean? "creak...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain", what do these lines mean? "creak across my soul with those same boots of lead, again. Then space began to toll."]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 19:53:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What seems to be the world referred to in the line “And I dropped...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What seems to be the world referred to in the line “And I dropped down, and down—And hit a World, at every plunge…”  Why? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:23:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The &quot;plank of Reason&quot; that is breaking is the speaker's grasp...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The &quot;plank of Reason&quot; that is breaking is the speaker's grasp on sanity.  The metaphor, then, is of the tenuous hold she has had on its retention.  A plank is a narrow board, often suspended over water.  When the plank breaks (reason, sanity) the speaker feels that she has plunged into the abyss.  The plank too, is a metaphor for crossing from one place (or state) to another.  There are two &quot;shores,&quot; if you will, in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:24:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In &quot;I Felt a Funeral in my brain,&quot; how does the line &quot;And...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In &quot;I Felt a Funeral in my brain,&quot; how does the line &quot;And then a Plank in Reason, broke&quot; a metaphor for the central theme?  ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:34:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In this poem, Emily Dickinson is describing a mental breakdown that is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this poem, Emily Dickinson is describing a mental breakdown that is caused by the heavy despair and pain that the subject's  life has caused her to feel.  The funeral is for the sanity of the subject, as she sinks into depression.  The lead boots are symbolic of the problems or disappointments of life that like, the heavy weight of lead trample on the subject to sink her into a a world of mental darkness. Her sorrows are so great that...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 8 Apr 2008 16:58:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In &quot;I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,&quot; what are the boots of lead...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In &quot;I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,&quot; what are the boots of lead and what do they symbolize?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 8 Apr 2008 16:17:09 PST</pubDate>
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