I Felt A Funeral In My Brain Analysis

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In the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” and the poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” the central idea was madness. This was the central idea because in “The Tell-Tale Heart” Poe did not like the old man’s eye because it “watched his every move”. In “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” the central idea was madness because she was losing her insanity. In both of the texts the narrators were going through a tough time dealing with life. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, Poe had a tough time dealing with the old man's eye looking at him everyday so he wanted to kill the man. This was hard because every time he tried the old man would be sleeping, which causes Poe to be mad. The narrator Poe states “--very gradually --I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” (p. 2) This explains …show more content…
She gets very upset and starts having heightened senses: “A Service, like a Drum- / Kept beating- beating - till I thought / My mind was going numb-” (lines 5-8) The narrator shows that she can hear things that she shouldn't be able to hear. This proves that she has heightened senses of hearing. She also uses the order of events in the story to develop the idea of madness. Dickinson develops the speaker’s madness through the funeral metaphor over the course of the entire poem when she says that “I felt a funeral, in my brain” (line 1) “And then a Plank in Reason broke, / And I dropped down, and down --” (lines 17 and 18) This shows that the narrator slowly is descending into madness. Another detail from the text is when the narrator repeats herself as in “And I dropped down, and down --” she shows that she is losing her insanity when she says “And then a Plank in Reason broke” This shows that she uses repetition and dashes to slow down time and also to show that she feels something sinking in. Both authors show lots of madness and irritation throughout both of their
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