1. Who is this poem about? 2. What event is the speaker describing?

3. What are the "Mourners" doing in lines 2-3?

4. How does the context of the first stanza help make meaning of the work "sense" (line 4)?

5. What happens to the speaker's mind?

6. What causes the speaker to feel this way?

7. What sounds does the speaker hear in stanzas 3 and 4?

8. What does the "plank" support in line 17?

9. How does the speaker use figurative language to describe his or her state of mind in lines 18-20?

10. How does Dickinson develop a metaphor over the course of the poem?

this about the funeral in the brain story