Dickinson's "After great pain, a formal feeling comes—" (1861) describes the after-effects of profound physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual agony.
Dickinson's "To lose one's faith—surpass," (1861), like "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain," explores the results of spiritual devastation.
Like the speaker of "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain," the title character of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601) faces the breakdown of his rational faculties.
Dickinson's "Much Madness Is Divinest Sense—" (1861) treats the theme of insanity in a much different way than "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain"; here, madness is likened to the spirit of non-conformity.
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