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In Emily Dickinson's I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, Dickinson makes an extended reference to the brief moments of insanity that normal humans suffer from. Firstly, she produces profund and loud imagery through her speaker's description of the activity in his mind. "Kept treading-treading-till it seemed that sense was breaking through-and when they all were seated, a service like a drum-kept beating-beating-till I thought my mind was going numb-" (Dickinson, 776). These couple of lines produce the feeling of being franitc, nervous, and altogether mentally tortured. The speaker seems to be affected dramatically by whatever happened in his life. He seems to be disconnected from life, and traveling farther and farther away as he become more frantic until he "dropped down-and hit a World, at every plunge, and Finished knowing-then" (Dickinson, 776). Thus, without explicitly stating it, Dickinson uses imagery to present the subject of the poem to the reader. Moreover, because her descriptions are so loud and extreme, one may believe that Dickinson is attmepting to describe the mindset of a truly mentally insane person. However, she is merely hoping to relate to the reader throught the description of moments when one's mind turns frantic, such as before a big athletic event, a speech before a big crowd, or anticipating the outcome of a trip to the dean's office for tweeting mean things about a rival school. Everyone has these experiences, right?