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The poems __I Felt A Funeral In my Brain__, __There's Been A Death In The Opposite House__, and __The Weary Blues__ are all based on the theme of death and endings. When searching for poems I found many with this theme and I started to wonder why. My idea is that when writing poetry, writers feel that they can express themselves in ways that are not available when writing essays and stories. Many famous poets fought depression, while this could be related to their seperate lives it could also be that they used their buisness to show the world their inner fight. In __The Weary Blues__ the theme of death seems a little hidden because the story seems to be focused on a piano player but what happenes when he goes to sleep? What happenes next?

The poems that I picked are related by a simple theme, but what is different about these poems? In __The Weary Blues__, Langston Hughes doesn't actually write about death in his poems but when I read it I felt that he was hiding the concept while in __I Felt A Funeral In my Brain__ and __There's Been A Death In The Opposite House__ Emily Dickinson actually makes the theme of death as clear as day and I wonder if she is speaking from personal experiences.