Group Work from Thursday - Grassman's Group

Poem 340 "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,"

Summary
The speaker is metaphorically describing her (or his) depression and plummet into despair.

Annotating
-The poem is written in ballad form. 
-Personification exists and is emphasized with the use of capitalization (i.e., "Mourners" are symbolic of aspects or objects in the speaker's "Brain").
-Enjambment is used to express motion toward an object (the conclusion, or lack thereof) in the poem.
-Dashes are used to emphasize specific motion (they are located next to key verbs, such as the "treading" of the Mourners, the "beating" of the Drum, the mind "going numb," the "toll[ing]" of Space, the speaker being "Wrecked" along with Silence, the speaker "dropp[ing]" down, then finally, the speaker "Finish[ing]" knowing. There is also an indicated missing or omitted verb at the end of the poem's last line, following this idea of the dashes indicating action. For example, the last line is "And Finished knowing - then - " That dash after "then" implies that action continues after the speaker has ceased to communicate, almost as though they have passed beyond the reader's perception or understanding. Perhaps the speaker has passed into death, onto another plane, with which the living cannot communicate.
-Repetition also gives the poem motion ("trading - treading" and "beating - beating") 
-Simile is used in the line which contains "like a Drum." The simile makes the abstract idea of the Service "beating" more tangible, although the exact meaning of this concept is elusive.
-Symbolism is used to make tangible concepts abstract, such as "Box," which stands in for "Brain," and "mind" which stands in for "soul."