I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain

Although this whole chapter is about imagery, this poem has specific qualities. While reading through this poem by Emily Dickinson, you'd notice that there is no imagery that connects to sight. It uses strong hearing and feeling imagery. For example, drums beating and heaven's bells are used for sound. "My mind was going numb--" applies to imagery connected to feeling. There is importance that there is no imagery for sight. Because this is something happening inside the speaker's mind, there's no sight. Simply, the speaker is going crazy. In the midst of going crazy, the speaker hears and feels things, yet doesn't see anything. This is significant because it gives the reader a hint into what going crazy really feels like, and doesn't look like.