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Annotated by:
- Coulehan, Jack
- Date of entry: May-07-2001
Summary
The author feels "a funeral in my brain"--mourners treading, drums beating. They "lift a Box" and tread across her soul with "Boots of Lead" until "a Plank in Reason" breaks.
Miscellaneous
Written in 1861
Primary Source
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Publisher
Little, Brown
Place Published
Boston
Edition
1960
Editor
Thomas H. Johnson
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