Something that really stood out to me this week was the Poem of the Week, although it may have been because we had a shorter week in which we mostly worked on our projects. In any case, I really liked the Emily Dickinson poem that we worked with; it was just my kind of poem and reminded me of how my poems always end up when I write one. I like poetry that can be taken many ways in which the topic or point isn't clear or relevant to the reader. In "I felt a funeral in my brain...", Dickinson uses very ambiguous words and phrases that confuse the reader, for example when the speaker says that instead of seeing a funeral, they feel it, and instead of seeing the casket, they hear it. The fact that the speaker clearly isn't at a literal funeral opens many doors to the reader, allowing them to interpret the poem as they wish.
Because of the fact that this poem can be taken many different ways, I have found different things in it each time I look at it. My final and honestly favorite interpretation was that the poem is about Dissociative Identity Disorder. The mourners treading are the other personalities in the speaker's brain and the core personality noticing the existence of the others, and in the end of the poem, the dropping down through the worlds is the others pushing the core personality down so that the core can't hold consciousness anymore. The core is introduced to each "world", each personality, as they get further and further from consciousness.
Because of the fact that this poem can be taken many different ways, I have found different things in it each time I look at it. My final and honestly favorite interpretation was that the poem is about Dissociative Identity Disorder. The mourners treading are the other personalities in the speaker's brain and the core personality noticing the existence of the others, and in the end of the poem, the dropping down through the worlds is the others pushing the core personality down so that the core can't hold consciousness anymore. The core is introduced to each "world", each personality, as they get further and further from consciousness.