TPCASTT Poem Analysis of I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain by Emily Dickonsen

Title: I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain - she is losing her mind. Just through what a funeral represents which is the loss of something you love and the synonym for brain which is mind. 

Paraphrase: 

• "and mourners, to and fro, kept treading - treading - ..." - anxiety and pain keep coming into her thoughts.
• "and when they all were seated," - the anxiety and pain all came to a halt.
• "and then a plank in reason, broke, and I dropped down and down" - the foundations on which her sanity is built on collapsed under her and she fell into the darkness of insanity. 

Connotation: 

Attitude: The attitude of the character/author is very panicked and scared. She is afraid that she is in fact going to lose her mind and go crazy. My attitude towards the character is empathy and benevolence. I can understand, maybe to not entire this extent but to some degree, of what it feels like to have your mind and soul trying to leave you. 

Shift: I think the shift is somewhere between the last stanza and the one prior to that. When she says "Wrecked, solitary, here - ... and then a Plank in Reason broke."

It goes from her feeling all alone as if no one could come help her while she's hanging on the edge of her sanity, to the point where she could hold on anymore. 

Title Revisited: Instead of losing her mind i believe she has lost her mind. That's obvious to me now because you don't go obviously don't go to a funeral to mourn someone dying. 

Theme: Don't take what you have for granted.