Emily Dickinson

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Leaving Certificate English/Inglés Mind Map on Emily Dickinson, created by antonia2013 on 23/05/2013.
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Emily Dickinson
  1. "I felt a funeral in my brain"
    1. ~ Startling perspective.
      1. ~ Description of a funeral.
        1. ~ Imagery of heaviness.
          1. ~ Imagery of falling.
            1. ~ Terrifying, isolating experience.
              1. ~ Experience is physical, psychological and spiritual.
                1. ~ Repetition creates a sense of being overwhelmed.
                  1. ~ Theme of dying and death.
                    1. ~ Theme of breakdown.
                      1. ~ Ends on a note of uncertainty.
    2. "I heard a fly buzz...when I died"
      1. ~ Written in the voice of the dying person.
        1. ~Describes moment of death.
          1. ~ Solemnity of death is disturbed by the fly.
            1. ~ Ending is almost comic.
              1. ~ Themes of death and faith.
                1. ~ Ambiguous on the issue of eternal life.
                  1. ~Use of dash and run-on lines for dramatic effects.
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