How did the poet feel when the coffin was lifted by the mourners NU Emily Dickinson s - poem I felt a Funeral in my Brain tells the story of a funeral taking place inside the poet s own mind She imagines the mourners walking sitting and holding a service At one point they lift the coffin When the mourners lift the coffin she feels deep mental pain She also loses her sense of reason thinking So this funeral image shows the poet's mental pain and how she is going mad The Lifting of the Coffin The poet describes that the mourners lift a coffin He says And then I heard them lift a Box And creak across my Soul Here the box means the coffin She hears a creaking sound as if the coffin is heavy But this sound does not only come to her ears She feels it