It sounds like hope is lost, and the person is singing about trying to enjoy some of the joys in life without the pain while battling this hopelessness.

Could be standing up for what's right and going against the academic school system but in return, they were punished for standing up.

The seemingly innocent wave of the new generation destroys the classics. They use classic masterpieces to inject weird new trends and subvert everything

The toned of these lines gives a dark mood

sounds like Ma Rainy is the only one who can make the saddest people turn their mood from a negative to a positive

could be that some people see the positive in a situation or make laughter as medicine while some take a different approach and stay depressed.

This could be something personal because when " they send to the kitchen to eat " is because they could be embarrassed by his skin color and don't want the company to think bad or complain, but the narrator doesn't care, he will still enjoy life.

Could it be that his soul has fallen into despair over the years, as deep as a river?

I'm presuming is asking about the culture, and the energy in Harlem like the Mission district Will it dry up with rich culture, or rot with years of danger?

So most of his poems are personal and I'm assuming the other poems are meaningless or abstract?

As a minority artist with an art style that is common but not impressive as realism or abstract sculptures or something unique is hard to get your name out there I only have luck because I'm friends with people with connections but that rarely happens so being a minority artist we have to climb rocky high mountains to succeed.

This is something that some minorities get tired of hearing people putting their race before their skills for example I'm just a bassist and a drummer of course I want to represent my heritage in music and art but I don't people describing me the Latino Musician and artist it's ok in some occasions but it gets annoying when they use it all the time the part when he says "I want to be a poet " pretty much means that he wants to be a regular poet, not titled as a colored poet.

https://youtu.be/6wuNgaq0MpE

The verse is talking about change and how everything is already in the past and now is present But these memories haunt us ceaselessly. The song is about a man who has survived the zombie apocalypse but has lost his wife during it and he's haunted by everything around him along with the loneliness of his situation. I would say is bad because it's a haunting memory and no one really want that kind of memory it relates to the song because the man in the music lost everything that haunts him until he dies.

https://youtu.be/m4yawisNuf8 The short sentence " Fear death by water " can be interpreted with many meanings it could be a metaphor or the actual death. The song talks about death in a way because it talks about the singer's inner struggle with good and evil and how his evil conscious is killing every last bit of his good conscience. In the poem, where it says "fear death by water I see crowds of people, walking round in a ring." this could be a zombie reference or just someone conscious that the people walking around a ring is guilt and is haunting the person in the poem, which relates to the song evil conscious is killing every last bit of the good conscience.

https://youtu.be/UZQscra7Qnw This band is controversial for its anti-religious music but in the poem, the verse " To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine. " I interpreted it as people turning into zombies. Further in the poem, it mentions “That corpse you planted last year in your garden, *Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?" Which corpse represents the corpse, and the part brought back in the final nine hits may be a zombie reference. In the song where it says " No promises of God's salvation," I see this in the poem as not even god can save you from the apocalypse.

https://youtu.be/xk8gZdtWZ3k

I chose this song because of the part where it says " Looking into the heart of light" The song talks about the vocalist's new meaning of life and the struggles he had from his bike accidents.

A third Zombie reference "With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine." refers to zombie noises when they can't talk, but only make un godly sounds.

The Title is a zombie reference because it says " The Burial Of the Dead." referring to graves or random burial sites.

A zombie reference is pretty much your common zombie description " Living nor Dead " you will hear this in some Vampire movies as well.

Plague doctors are usually the symbol of death or when death is near this image of a Plague doctor with a rose has a deeper meaning of death and life in one picture the quote " The Burial of the Dead " could mean that is a lad of lost souls or it could be a grave of the dead.

What's the point of repeating I chance? is there any meaning behind it or is Stein trying to mess with readers?

Why add do or after door? Is Stein trying to rhyme or trying to get the readers thinking? is there a reason behind it?

" I do believe it will finish, I do believe it will finish " sound as if when people want torcher to end or wants peace but can't get any because of everything that's going on right now.

Someone with anger issues that are born without emotions is never in fear of anything.

There was a heat wave in September that part where it says "it seems to destroy us" is when the people were dying from heat exhaustion.

The Pure Products of America could be everyone's ideal American like America's poster child for the American Dream and the part where it's go crazy could be when Americans are starting to divide and go against each other for their opinions and idea's

could be the rose is a metaphor and " may pierce me " could be the narrator's feelings getting hurt so does the rose regret hurting his feelings?

The empty shore could represent something sad like a shore of lost hope

The Narrator is suffering from a lot of pain and they are begging for the pain to stop but they cant because the narrator is being pinned.

The woods could be the final resting place for the narrator because when the narrator mentions " dark and deep" and " miles to go before I sleep" is telling that the narrator could be dying.

I'm assuming the narrator is describing one of the paths you choose in life this one is fair and a better chance in life.

no more memories are being visited because later people will forget those precious memories or try to forget them.

I guess this probably is the experience people get and they use what they worked with to give the best advice.

I'm assuming the fence is how you present yourself you know like first impressions but if you make a bad fence you will make a bad impression that's how you make good neighbors.

could it be that the two roads represent the choices you make in life and the one pick has made an impact in your life?

the men behavior change for the good but i don't know the reason why

I think he's passing on or dying

Men were happy and children's playing sounds like there used to be energy in this town.

I'm assuming that the narrator is hearing the sorrows of the family member or partner.

No one knows if the person is honest or false and hope or false hope is pretty much how people would run for office they would win the vote by lying.

From looking at this I see that there's no hope for justice but in reality, it's mostly injustice/corruptness

Is he an indoor guy or scared that something bad might happened?

To me, it sounds like he's nervous to be a parent.

Usually, houses like these are haunted due to rough history but is he asking for the mansion to be haunted?

this line ties back to the civil war when the war finally ended “Shout, O children! Shout, you’re free! For God has bought your liberty!” is pretty much slavery finally ending, and the children are the freed slaves.

you can see that Dubois says that in the world there are questions that need to be asked by people that are suffering.

"Voice of my heart" could be his feelings.

they use this guy for a symbol of power if i remember in some cultures a man with a horse is known as a powerful figure

sounds like they were studying gothic style art

Some Magnets are the opposite of each other so this example makes sense.

Gutted Cars could be people stealing parts from cars for money

"Burning" could be the man-made forest fires that appear in the news like the ones in California that was caused by PG&E, The gender reveals party, etc.

The part, " Fence Post " could have two representations one is that Fence Post is a metaphor for us getting trapped in our guilt and the other is the part where it says earth is eating trees "Fence Post" are we chopped down the trees and turn them into fences.

I feel like this quote is pretty much saying how mothers get tougher and tougher through the years.