I felt a Funeral, in my Brain~#2

Dickinson includes allegory in this poem. The title is a metaphor for a migraine, which can make one feel like death. "Mourners" refers to those who have this destructive pain. "Beating, beating" refers to the constant pounding within the skull. Dickinson explains, "my mind was going numb." This phrase symbolizes the idea that after a day full of awful pain, you are unable to think straight. "Then space began to toll," describes the sensation that everything seems to drag out and on throughout a migraine. "Wrecked, solitary" are symbolic of the physical destructiveness and loneliness that takes over those suffering with this super headache.