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The poem “I felt a Funeral in My Brain” was written by Emily Dickens. In the poem the speaker imagines that there is a funeral taking place inside her mind and at the end of the poem she believes that the floor broke and all the people are falling into an unknown world. The first stanza gives an introduction stating that the speaker believes a funeral is taking place inside her mind and the mourners have attended are wandering around. In the second stanza the funeral service is beginning and all of the people attending find their seats. The speaker also mentions that the funeral has the beat of the drum which is causing the speaker to receive a headache, which she explains as “[her] mind was going numb” (8). The third stanza mentions the people lifting a box which the reader can be interpreted as the funeral being over and the mourners are going to go bury the casket. The stanza also mentions that they are wearing the “same Boots of Lead, again” which leads the reader to believe that the speaker recognizes these boots from a past experience. The fourth stanza describes a bell but in the same universe the speaker and silence is isolated and the speaker feels that she is “wrecked” and cannot escape the seclusion she has imagined herself in. In the final stanza, the speaker explains that a Plank in Reason, broke” (16), which leads the reader to assume that the figurative floor they were standing on was destroyed and resulted in everything falling into an unknown world. The last line of the poem ends abruptly, “And finished knowing - then-” (20), however because the last sentence is not formally finished the reader can interpret this as the beginning to a future story of the new world.
“Theme for English B” was written in 1951, by po...

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...pipe for a Christmas present,/ or records-Bessie, bop, or Bach.” This stanza only allows the reader to learn more about the speaker’s character. In the seventh stanza, the speaker is wondering if being colored makes him like different thing, but in the end of the stanza he connects the colored and the whites by saying they are both American. By saying that the two races are American, the speaker is attempting to clarify that America is a free country and everyone has the ability to love the life they want without discrimination or segregation. The eighth stanza describes how even though people of different ethnicities prefer not to interact with the other both sides can learn something valuable as the speaker says, “As I learn from you,/ you learn from me” (37-38). The last line of the poem reiterates that this is the narrators completed assignment for English B.

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