Emily Dickinson

"The Mystery of Pain", Emily Dickinson

   In "The Mystery of Pain" by Emily Dickinson, the poet gives pain human characteristics. In line two Dickinson says pain cannot recollect, of course it can't because it is not a living thing. She discusses how pain will never go away and when we think it does a new period of pain begins.

"I Felt a Funeral in My Brain", Emily Dickinson

   In "I Felt A Funeral In My Brain", by Emily Dickinson, she compares her feelings and thought to a funeral.In the whole poem she talks about things she feels in her mind but most of those thing she has mentioned happen at funerals. In lines 9-12 she discusses many actions that happen at funerals ("lift a box," "service like  a drum," & "Beating.")