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Emily Dickinson On Drugs?
Emily Dickinson's poems often make me ponder her mental stability.
Sometimes I wonder if she was psychotic or on some kind of mind-altering
drugs. In Dickinson's poems "I felt a funeral in my brain," "My life closed
twice before its close," and "Because I could not stop for Death," we shall
see whether or not Mr. J's theory of her insanity stands true. In the
piece "I felt a funeral in my brain," she views her own funeral in her head.
At one point she thought, "My mind was going numb;" now I strongly believe
that one has to be on "crack" to write a line like this. "Then ....
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