In my opinion, Emily Dickinson as a transcendentalist used her poetry to describe the process of transcendental meditation, especially death meditation. In this poem he tries to allow us to experience our true nature by directly entering our consciousness. The poem is a profound search for the nature of death, death which is a process of expansion and transformation from solidarity to spaciousness. When he says, "I heard a funeral in my brain, and the mourners to and fro, kept walking, walking until it seemed like the sense was breaking in..." He focuses on the sensation of being in the body, feeling the substantiality and the solidity of the body, and the heaviness caused by gravity that attracts its own substance. When he says..." And then I heard them lift a box and creak through my soul, With those same lead boots, again the space began to sound..." I believe this is an expression of the awareness that a “Lightbody” experiences, seeing, tasting, touching and the like. The body that is inside the heavy or outside body. "As all the skies were a bell, and being but an ear, and I, and the silence, a strange, broken, lonely race here" I believe is a reference to the phase in which the "Light Body" separates from the "Heavy Body " and everything floats free. "And then a axis of reason broke, and I fell down, and down, and hit a world with each plunge, and then I finished knowing-" I believe this means to die softly and gradually, in the light and free from knowledge. Thinking that everything that comes to mind is old and are just old thoughts, and we shouldn't hold onto them. Give a new birth to ourselves, observe peace, mercy, kindness and heal the pain we suffer from.
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