I felt a Funeral, in my Brain Poem By Emily Dickinson In Urdu and Hindi, Summary and Analysis, PDF.

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain Poem By Emily Dickinson In Urdu and Hindi, Summary and Analysis, PDF.

 

  Emily Dickinson's Biography:

    Born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts.
    Father Edward Dickinson was strict and traditional.
    Received education but withdrew from academic life.
    Sent poems to Thomas Wentworth Higginson in 1862, few were published.
    Lived in seclusion after her father's death in 1874.
    Wrote prolifically in letters and composed poetry.
    Nearly 2,000 poems found after her death in 1886.
    Published editions varied until the definitive edition in 1955.
    Known for her intellectual depth despite her seemingly uneventful life.
 

"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain":

    Published in 1896, composed around 1861.
    Uses a funeral metaphor to depict stages of a mental breakdown.
    Follows a ballad stanza with ABCB rhyme scheme.
    Common meter alternates between iambic tetrameter and trimeter.
    Explores human consciousness using concrete language and imagery.
    Allows for multiple interpretations of the "funeral" as mental challenges or pressures.
    The speaker's mind becomes numb, ending abruptly in a fragmented manner.

Important Mcqs 

Form:
 

The poem employs a ballad stanza, consisting of five quatrains.
The rhyme scheme follows ABCB, where the second and fourth lines rhyme.
 

Meter:
 

The poem follows common meter, typical of ballads.
It alternates lines of iambic tetrameter (eight syllables with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables) with lines of iambic trimeter (six syllables with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables).
There are instances of spondees (two stressed syllables in a row) that mirror the themes or emotions being described in the poem.
 

Rhyme Scheme:
 

The rhyme scheme of the entire poem can be summarized as ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON.
Some rhymes are slant rhymes, creating an off-kilter and unique quality to the poem's language.
 

Setting:
 

The setting is metaphorically the speaker's own mind.
The events take place within the mind-space, symbolized as a room or building where a funeral unfolds.
As the poem progresses, the mind opens up to the external world, blurring the distinction between internal and external settings.
The final descent into an abyss suggests an expansive yet barely perceptible setting, possibly containing multiple worlds.

SUMMARY!

The person speaking feels like a funeral is going on in his or her mind. It seems like the people at the funeral are walking back and forth inside the speaker's head, so much so that whatever they're walking on might break under the strain, causing reason to fall through the hole in the speaker's mind.


The people who are sad finally sit down for the funeral service. But there are no words in this service. Instead, all the user can hear is a steady drum-like sound. This noise is so loud that it makes this person's mind go blank, as if they were numb.
The service is over, and the funeral parade is about to start. The people pick up a coffin and carry it as they walk across the speaker's soul, which creaks like an old wooden floor. Everyone walking in the funeral parade is wearing heavy boots made of lead, which is why their walking again makes the speaker's mind work so hard. A bell starts to ring, but it doesn't sound like it's coming from just one place. Instead, it sounds like it's coming from everywhere at once.


Even the sky and maybe even Heaven sound like bells. The person talking says that the only reason people exist is to listen to the world sound. The speaker's mind has gone blank, and he or she feels like he or she is no longer human and has turned into a strange animal. The person speaking is alone in their own body and mind, as if they were lost there.
Finally, one of the floorboards in the speaker's rational mind breaks, making a hole through which the speaker sinks further and further down. As the speaker falls, whole worlds seem to crash into each other until the speaker's mind shuts down and he or she can no longer understand anything. The poem ends just as the speaker is about to say what comes next.

  

 

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