愛蜜麗‧狄更森常用不同的方式談死亡，另一方面，她也用死亡、喪禮來反映自己的情緒、心理的狀態。

寫作上除了常見的宗教情壞、聖詩體裁，在〈I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,〉當中，還可見到莎士比亞在長句中抽字截短的作法。

本集重點：

00:43〈Because I could not stop for Death –〉：「我」談參加自己喪禮，如與死神遠足，沒有恐懼，但有死亡帶來的冷、冰、苦。

09:05:〈I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,〉：腦內的出殯，形容無法安寧的心靈

延伸閱讀：

Because I could not stop for Death –  

Because I could not stop for Death –

He kindly stopped for me –

The Carriage held but just Ourselves –

And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste

And I had put away

My labor and my leisure too,

For His Civility –

We passed the School, where Children strove

At Recess – in the Ring –

We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –

We passed the Setting Sun –

Or rather – He passed Us –

The Dews drew quivering and Chill –

For only Gossamer, my Gown –

My Tippet – only Tulle –

We paused before a House that seemed

A Swelling of the Ground –

The Roof was scarcely visible –

The Cornice – in the Ground –

Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet

Feels shorter than the Day

I first surmised the Horses' Heads

Were toward Eternity –

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,  

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,

And Mourners to and fro

Kept treading - treading - till it seemed

That Sense was breaking through -

And when they all were seated,

A Service, like a Drum -

Kept beating - beating - till I thought

My mind was going numb -

And then I heard them lift a Box

And creak across my Soul

With those same Boots of Lead, again,

Then Space - began to toll,

As all the Heavens were a Bell,

And Being, but an Ear,

And I, and Silence, some strange Race,

Wrecked, solitary, here -

And then a Plank in Reason, broke,

And I dropped down, and down -

And hit a World, at every plunge,

And Finished knowing - then –

【本集節目是由《鏡好聽》製作播出的《漫談英文詩》】

製作人：程遠茜 /錄音師：曾海芬

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