Funerals signal time of mourning and sadness; however, the word in which Dickinson actually uses was to mark the end of life existence. She also established a negative connotation of her entire life events and the celebration of his life. Such words like "mourning", "treading", "beating", "creak", "solitary" used in the poem, illustrate a few examples of Dickinson imposes the ominous loss of the mind, the slow slide into madness and loss of reality, in which she ended the poem. "And then a plank in reason, broke..." this creates an atmosphere whereby the sense of a familiar aspect of life; thus, the ability to experience a weakness and loss of oneself, a funeral, and follow the death, a break from reality. For instance, it is well recognized that most infants have no ability of an awareness of their own state, emotions and motivations. Even older children who can speak have a limited insight into their own actions, and limitations about how to create or describe their pain and action. These emotions and motivations make and keep being in us alive; therefore, the abstant of these literately kills the being in the …show more content…
In a way, her insanity is better for her than the sanity. Thus, the mourners in the funeral are a metaphor to express her pain and the pressure in life, which pushes her down in her grave. The pressure of the treading is the metaphor of the drum that was beating during the funeral. The mind which is the source of reasoning and thinking goes "numb," which leads to a further failure in her condition that was the death in the mind that she was describing. For example, during pregnancy or when a woman is in labor this was the kind of pains and pressure that Emily was describing. But after the birth the pregnant woman feels numb and even promise her self not having a child