{"id":380,"date":"2021-12-08T19:55:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T00:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/?page_id=380"},"modified":"2021-12-14T14:01:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T19:01:30","slug":"emily-dickinson-poem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/digital-editions\/i-felt-a-funeral-in-my-brain\/emily-dickinson-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,<\/div>\n
And Mourners to and fro<\/div>\n
Kept treading – treading – till it seemed<\/div>\n
That Sense was breaking through –<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
And when they all were seated,<\/div>\n
A Service, like a Drum –<\/div>\n
Kept beating – beating – till I thought<\/div>\n
My mind was going numb –<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
And then I heard them lift a Box<\/div>\n
And creak across my Soul<\/div>\n
With those same Boots of Lead, again,<\/div>\n
Then Space – began to toll,<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
As all the Heavens were a Bell,<\/div>\n
And Being, but an Ear,<\/div>\n
And I, and Silence, some strange Race,<\/div>\n
Wrecked, solitary, here –<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
And then a Plank in Reason, broke,<\/div>\n
And I dropped down, and down –<\/div>\n
And hit a World, at every plunge,<\/div>\n
And Finished knowing – then –<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro 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 – And then I … Continue reading I felt a Funeral, in my Brain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4450,"featured_media":0,"parent":262,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-380","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}