I Felt A Funeral In My Brain

With Dickinson's odd capitalization in I Felt a Funeral In My Brain, it is difficult to separate special meaning, but one word stuck out to me: Brain. A normal funeral is corporeal and having to do with a body, however this funeral implies the death of someones mind.  Many images and senses are evoked when reading the poem and the situations she describes.  Initially, we notice that she is hearing things inside this coffin that she is in.  Oddly enough though, she is dead! This implies that, as readers, we are receiving a stream of conciseness from the author.  The author is essentially telling us all how her inner being is feeling at this point in life. For her, she feels as though she is losing her mind.  In the concluding portions of the poem, the final burial can stand for the complete loss of her mind. " And Finished knowing-then-"(Dickinson,776). This quote essentially states that her awareness and self-being is gone.  Either she is dead or she has officially gone insane.