I Felt A Funeral In My Brain

Unhappiness is an emotion felt by every human-being on this earth; some humans may experience unhappiness when they are suffering from mental illness, others may experience unhappiness when they are dissatisfied with the state of their romantic life and others may experience unhappiness when they are pulled away from their 5 hour streak of watching The Office to write an essay desperately trying to compare two poems using details from the text and literary devices. In like manner, poets cope with unhappiness through their immense talent to express their distaste with life like in I felt a funeral in my brain by Emily Dickinson and Lonely Hearts by Wendy Cope. Figuratively, sit down, buckle up and get ready for the most engaging and interesting
"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, and Mourners to and fro, Kept treading - treading - till it seemed" (Dickinson 1-3). In these lines, Dickinson expresses how she is depressed and her unhappiness comes from within her through metaphor. 'The Funeral' represents her mental illness and it's in her brain, casting shadows over her mental. She says how she copes through moving on and dealing with these struggles by herself. When she 'keep(s) treading', it shows how she deals with these negative experiences by not allowing it to absorb her and let herself move on. "As all the Heavens were a Bell, And Being, but an Ear, And I, and Silence, some strange Race, Wrecked, solitary, here -" (Dickinson, 13-16). In other words, Dickinson copes with her unhappiness and grief by isolating herself from others, despite her mental health being very poor. Similarly, she used metaphors once again, she illustrated her mental health and current emotional state, calling it 'wrecked' and 'solitary'. Without a doubt, poetry was a way for Dickinson to escape from the struggles she went through mentally. Her isolation and poetry really gives the reader a look into her