Poem analysis: I felt a funeral in my brain

Title:

I felt a funeral in my brain

- depressed and time to mourn and feeling on isolation but togetherness because like people feel the same as you. Sorrow

Paraphrase:

- she felt the weight of all those who bring her down and it made her think of reality and how short life is. We get pounded with all this information constantly like te beating of a drum and it's hard to retain all of it and even care about it and at some point we reach our breaking point which is why she went numb. She didn't care. She can only absorb involuntarily the actions around her and she feels alone. Her sanity broke and she fell to her death and stopped caring.

Connotation:

- plank in reason: plank is thin board above water and when you fall you die. So her plank was the slim truth and reason she had in like and when her reason wasn't valid anymore she fell

- heavens a bell and I but an ear: she was made to hear the things she Donets want to hear. She is made to go to heaven and was inevitably going to go there. Ears can't not hear, involuntarily action

- wrecked: a mistake or something not meant to happen. She didn't mean or plan to be alone or an outsider, it just happened

Attitude:

- the attitude of the author is accepting because she knows she is tired and fed up with life and she acknowledges that it is her time to leave because she has done all that she can in this world. She has hope but she lost it. Kinda regretful. My attitude was I felt bad for her. She literally was depressed and I felt like she thought she was just done with life and everything and she missed out because she stood out. 

Shift:

- shift in the last stanza when she describes falling off her plank because before that it was more optimistic like she had a chance but was just sad. It says something broke and before it was talking about her potential or the things that made her and out. No action to action 

Title revisited:

- why does she say brain rather than head or in my mind or inside me like soul?

- funeral is stereotypical and traditionally death but she was describing death at a funeral, her death rather than the past death she was telling a future death

Theme:

- she was alone and felt the pain and weight if life on her. People weigh you down, it's not you but the people you surround yourself with that make you who you are/ the actions you choose. (She looked around and saw she was different.)