Emily Dickinson's "After great pain, a formal feeling comes" (The Poems of Emily Dickinson, 1929) focuses on the acceptance of grief.
"Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden, published in 1940 in his Another Time, presents a portrait of the suffering experienced after the death of a loved one.
"The Song of Despair" is another poem by Neruda, published with "Tonight I Can Write" in Twenty Love.....
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