Dickinson

Question 1

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain: Madness = Death, Aural imagry

Answer 1

“Kept treading - treading - till it seemed That Sense was breaking through”

Question 1

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain: Madness = Death, Aural imagery #2

Answer 1

“Kept beating - beating - till I thought My mind was going numb”

Question 2

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain: Madness = Death #3

Answer 2

“And then a Plank in Reason, broke”

Question 3

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain: Abrupt ending, dashes

Answer 3

“And Finished knowing - then-“

Question 4

I heard a Fly Buzz - when I died: Tension, anticipation

Answer 4

“The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air between the Heaves of Storms

Question 5

I heard a Fly Buzz - when I died: traditional understanding of death

Answer 5

“For that Last Onset - when the King Be witnessed - in the Room -“

Question 6

I heard a Fly Buzz - when I died: Dramatic Irony

Answer 6

“There interposed a Fly With blue - uncertain stumbling Buzz”

Question 7

I taste a liquor never brewed: Establishing Vice in the poem

Answer 7

“Inebriate of air - am I - And Debauchee of Dew”

Question 8

I taste a liquor never brewed: Vice, Setting

Answer 8

“When Butterflies - renounce their “drams”- I shall but drink the more”

Question 9

I taste a liquor never brewed: Religion

Answer 9

“Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats - And Saints - to windows run - To see the little Tippler Leaning against the - Sun!”