After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes Overview
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes" is a poem by American poet Emily Dickinson. While most of Dickinson's poems were published posthumously in 1890, "After great pain" did not appear in print until 1929, when it was published in the Atlantic Monthly. The poem, like most of Dickinson's work, was never titled, and is instead known as #372 in Dickinson's oeuvre. The poem describes the emotional state one might experience in the wake of a traumatic event.
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Emily Dickinson Biographies (5)
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One of the finest lyric poets in the English language, the American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was a keen observer of nature and a wise interpreter of human passion. Her family and friends publi...
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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the...
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Biography EssayTo be a poet was the sole ambition of Emily Dickinson. She achieved what she called her immortality by total commitment to the task, allowing nothing to deter her or intervene. Contrary...
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To be a poet was the sole ambition of Emily Dickinson. She achieved what she called her immortality by total commitment to the task, allowing nothing to deter her or intervene. Contrary to the myth th...
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A poet who took definition as her province, Emily Dickinson challenged the existing definitions of poetry and the poet's work. Like writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt W...
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