In both texts that you read, the line between reality and imagination blurs—the narrator sees a woman in the wallpaper, while Dickinson’s speaker feels their own funeral happening in their mind. Have you ever had an experience where stress, fear, or emotions made something feel distorted or unreal? How did you ground yourself in reality again?

 Prompt Response : Yes, when I started failing all of my classes and became a great fear that I wouldn’t graduate on time with my class. I overstressed myself and became to stater feeling like a failure. I shut myself away from my friends for a while and I was quiet and mostly sad all the time. Until my boyfriend gave me a great advice and pep talk to get me started to boss up and turn in all my missing assignments and improve any bad test grades. I took a deep breathe listened to his reassurance and got to work. I listened to music and completely all of my missing and bad grades within a week. 

Summary: Today we read a poem called “I felt a funeral in my Brain”  by Emily Dickinson. We simply annotated the poem to gain a further understanding of the poem. We said that the poem mostly states that loosing your mind is like being buried alive. We came up with the themes of get help before you loose yourself and don’t go through life alone. We ended the class period with completing our blog posts. 

Reflection: Today was a good day. I can use this lesson in life in case I need to annotate any text. I can better learn how annotate text to get deeper understandings behind them. This poem was very deep and emotional and it shows me that I’m never alone, that I need to go through life not by myself and get help if I ever feel down.