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In Byrne’s poem, she contrasts conscious versus unconscious thought in the human brain. In Lise Eliot’s book What’s Going on in There?: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life (1999), the author examines modern research on brain development and discusses how intelligence evolves in the early stage of the human life cycle. The book also discusses the development of motor skills, emotional growth, and memory.

Byrne’s poem takes the reader inside the author’s thought processes. In William Faulkner’s acclaimed novel As I Lay Dying...

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