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What is the speaker experiencing in "i felt a funeral, in my brain'?

A: a mental loss

B: joyful expectation

C: awe of nature

D: anger with God

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It's A. a mental loss

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This poem by emily dickinson is actually about the descent into madness or insanity. In the choices given above, the best way to describe it would be a mental loss. In the poem, the speaker uses metaphors relating to funerals in order to describe the current state of her mind. In a sense, we can say that in her mind, she actually lost something and is mourning the death of that "something" in her mind that she lost. In a small sense, we can say that the speaker has lost a bit of herself already, possibly her own sanity.
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