Kategorien: Alle - death - stages - metaphors - symbols

von August Brooks Vor 1 Jahr

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Digital Poetry Analysis

This piece delves into the intricate use of metaphors and symbols to depict a profound emotional journey. The poem likens the writer's mental state to the stages of a funeral, employing vivid imagery and symbolic elements such as "

Digital Poetry Analysis

Digital Poetry Analysis

The poem starts out with the writer's comparing their state of mind being like a funeral.

The coffin being closed, the person being carried to their grave
Then Space - began to toll,
With those same Boots of Lead, again,
And creak across my Soul
And then I heard them lift a Box
The Mourners symbolizing sadness and death.
The stanzas are broken up into different stages of a funeral. Stanza One is the Wake, the second stanza is the funeral service, the third stanza is the funeral procession and then finally burial.
The poem uses a lot of metaphors and symbols. Some symbols include:

I Felt A Funeral In my Brain by Emily Dickinson

Funeral, the wake, mourning the individual who died
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading - treading - till it seemed That Sense was breaking through -

Funeral service, the funeral starting

My mind was going numb -

Kept beating - beating - till I thought

A Service, like a Drum -

And when they all were seated,