In Emily Dickinson’s “I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain,” the speaker experiences a mind that seems to work against her. Sometimes our own thoughts can make a situation feel worse than it actually is. Describe a time when overthinking, worrying, or doubting yourself affected the way you handled a situation. What did you learn from the experience?

 I severely overthink and worry right before tests or exams. I end up sweating a lot and just totally overthink questions and forget important things. In reality, I know most of the concepts and the test is quite easy, or the worse happens and because I forgot important things, I get bad grades. I have learned to take a deep breath and say that as long as I’ve payed attention, studied, and done all the coursework possible, there’s no way that I could get anything less than what I’ve prepared for.

Today in class we read a poem by Emily Dickinson and analyzed it.

I thought today was very productive, especially the way we went over and annotated the poem. I never would’ve pulled out the meaning and analyzed it as well without going over it as a class, and I’m surprised how much meaning was contained within it.

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