Funeral For My Brain

This tone is exactly like all of Dickenson's poem's tones: dark and deathly depressing. But something, personally, felt almost... off. Could this poem possibly be about birth?? All of the capitalized words could be symbols that would suggest so. Symbols like "Sense breaking... Mind going numb... Reason, broke." (Dickenson) can easily support this out of the box theory. The baby's known world (the womb) is being taken from it, and just as we would react when sanity is taken from us, the baby, or "strange Race" is stressing out and panicking. The "Drum" could symbolize the mother's heartbeat as she is experiencing labor. The poem does not need to be depressing. It just shows a monumental change.