Your initial post should respond to both questions below and should be around 350 words. In your response, be sure to include reference to specific moments, language, and details from the poem. 1. In Lecture 18, you read a brief analysis of Dickinson`s "I felt a Cleaving in my Mind" (Links to an external site.) (also sometimes called "The Lost Thought" by editors, though not by Dickinson herself as she did not name her poems). The website mentions that the poem is often considered to be about either a psychological breakdown OR the struggle to retrieve a lost thought. Which do you feel the poem is about and why? Provide evidence from the poem to support your interpretation and explain. 2. What lingering questions do you have about "I felt a Cleaving in my Mind" that may even contradict the interpretation you came up with in #1? What would you point to in the poem that does not fit neatly with your interpretation? The link will be provided to the assigned writer.
