Emily Dickinson - "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain"

"A Service like a ____ kept ______ - ______"

Why does the poet use repetition of the 'treading' to describe the mourners footsteps?

• To emphasise the amount of people at the funeral

• Suggests that the speaker has a headache

• I don't know

• The feet will not stop pounding represent the turmoil the speaker is going through.

"And I ___ a ____ at every _____"

"And Finished _____ - _____ -"

"As the _____ were a _____"

How do the Mourners make the narrator lose her sanity?

• They keep talking

• They keep beating a drum

• They keep treading

• They keep dropping

What punctuation mark does the poem end with?

• Comma

• Full stop

• Question mark

• Dash

Which of the following best identifies the theme of the poem?

• There is nothing more painful than losing someone you love.

• It is common to feel abandoned when you are left alone.

• A person's loss of self can feel as tragic as death.

• By allowing time for grieving, a person is more likely to recover.