"My Mind was going numb-"
This Emily Dickinson poem uses the literary term, quatrain. It is a poem that consists of five quatrains, that are four lines grouped together as a unit. I think the purpose of this is just to keep some of her thoughts separate from each other. I found this poem to be pretty confusing. I really want to know if there is a purpose for her randomly capitolizing some words, and not others, and if so, what is her reasoning or methodology? The overall meaning of the poem is kind of fuzzy too. Death is always connected with a funeral, so something is dying in her mind. Regardless of what is actually dying, she is having serious issues with her internal self. She leaves the ending open so the reader is able to decide on an ending for themselves.
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