After Great Pain

In this poem “I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain”, Emily Dickinson seems to be suffering a traumatic experience or situation at that time, difficult to control inside her brain. She attempts to explain this painful emotion through this poem using a variety of literary techniques that include metaphor, symbolism, personification and others. It is clear that Dickinson is not using her sense of reasoning in this poem, she seems gone from the world around her, as if her mind state is deteriorating and she is going from sanity to insanity. From my point of view of the poem, Emily seems to be trying to convey readers her own tragic experience from the perspective of a dead person that is still able to use some of her senses and is conscious the whole time narrating the poem inside a coffin. However, it 's still not clear whether the speaker is living or dead, but she is definitely afraid and disturbed of what will happen when she finally loses her sanity.

Emily Dickinson’s poem, “After great pain, a formal feeling comes-“is a profound portrayal of the debilitating process of grief human beings undergo when confronted with a horrific tragedy. The response to that ultimate pain is the predominance of numbness, “After great pain, a formal feeling comes-/The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs-“(1-2). This is a poem that must be read slowly to become saturated in the melancholy, the dehumanization of suffering as it affects each aspect of the body without reference to the chaotic emotionality of it. The abundance of metaphors within Dickinson’s poem provides the means to empathize the necessity of numbness. It is also through the use of punctuation and capitalization, depicting the presence of a

Overall this poem consisting of six stanzas written by Emily Dickinson was about how the speaker apprehends death. Emily Dickinson wrote this poem to express her thoughts on how accepting death was. However just because death from illnesses and accidents were normal there must have been a reason to why Emily

Nonetheless, my chosen work has multiple facets to this period. In the poem “After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes—“, Dickenson has an emotional proposition. I believe that when she mentions her pain, it is heartache and something that can't be physically seen. When Dickinson says “A Wooden way regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone" (7-9), she is referring to the feeling that she has deep within that no one can help with. The pain that she is enduring is so terrible that she literally can’t take it anymore, so her heart goes numb. I feel that with the piece of poetry being a part of the Romanticism, it is rejecting a dark and gothic emotional ambience, with a tone that is gloomy or even pessimistic. Dickinson uses imagery in her words to get the reader to empathize with her pain. Her words draw emotions across your eyes that can help you better understand the true meaning of the poem. This piece of work resembles the Romanticism by Dickinson focusing on her own hurt. As a replacement of her using a cause and effect method to present her physical suffering, she focuses on declaring her pain through each

Dickinson’s “After great pain, a formal feeling comes” is a short poem about the struggles and hard transition of getting over the heartbreaking feelings that come after a great tragedy in one’s life such as losing someone; a friend, a lover etcetera. In a sense, this poem is very general, yet it cannot be applied to just any situation. It is general in the sense that those who have gone through such feelings of pain and lose know exactly what kind of “numbness” and hollow that Dickinson writes about; the feeling of not wanting or caring about what life has to offer anymore for a time once the “great pain” has first occurred and how hard it becomes to continue daily tasks, activities and routines. This poem is specifically about confronting the pain and making sense of it, and understanding that a great pain is a very

Emily Dickinson is one of the most influential poets of all time, and has a unique way of using literal imagery to paint a picture in the readers mind. The best poets are those that excel at using their words to create clear, concrete images and intrigue their reader. Dickinson began writing poetry around the year 1855, and prospered for another 10 years. Some of her most famous poems include “I Taste a liquor Never Brewed”, “Success is Counted Sweetest”, and “Wild nights – Wild Nights!”, all of which have influenced many aspiring writers to become poets, and show her true colors as a poet. Among her works of poetry, I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, is one that resembles the frequent patterns of Dickinson’s style of

In the poem, “After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes”, Emily Dickenuses uses various literary and poetic devices that add to the meaning and moral of the poem. For example, Dickinson uses simile in the poem when she says “A quartz contentment , like a stone”. Here, Emily compares contentment to a quartz stone, which is a very hard stone. This simile means that the hurt person feels content because their feelings are so hard and numb that they can not feel pain anymore. Therefore, they feel contentment as a result of the numbness.

Francis Manley’s “An Explication of Dickinson's 'After Great Pain'." main point is centered around when it is thought that Dickinson experienced some deep and extremely traumatic event, and the poem “After Great Pain” is about that traumatic experience. Manley points out how Dickinson’s personifies different parts of the human body. Manley states that the personification is to “demonstrate the numbness” (Manley 261) she feels emotionally. The personification used is of the heart and nerves, all of which are things that can represent emotion. I can use this to my advantage to show that possibly the great pain Dickinson has felt is Lost love.

Michael Salvucci Mrs. Comeau English 10 Honors Death, Pain, and the Pursuit of Peace Although Emily Dickinson’s poetry is profoundly insightful, her poems have a very confinedpan of subjects and themes. Most likely due to her early life and social reclusion, Dickinson’s poetry is limited to three major subjects: death, pain, and on a somewhat lighter note, nature. Dickinson’s poetry is greatly influenced by her early life as she led an extremely secluded and pessimisticlife. In her early adult years the poet spent one year studying at female seminary, from 1847 to 1848. Dickinson’s blunt pessimistic attitude is shown in a letter, written to a friend, as she says “I am not happy…Christ is calling everyone here, all my companions have

During the beginning of the poem, Emily Dickinson uses the word warm to create a point of reference for the remainder of the piece. By using this point of reference Emily is able to further her language, and empower the words used later in the piece. Then using this contrast, she is able to progress

Emily Dickinson’s poem “The Soul Has Bandaged Moments” revolves around her interpretation of her soul. The speaker explains that her soul goes through many phases. Her soul goes from being trapped with extreme fear, to gaining the strength to escape, and finally being trapped once again. This poem is ultimately about fear and depression, and the soul’s inability to break free from the demon that it is trapped by.

With all great poems comes a sense of ambiguity that cannot be described. These statements can always then be interpreted by the reader by their own senses, feelings and thoughts of morality. Emily Dickinson uses this technique to question ones meaning in life and even the morality of order and entropy in after great pain, a formal feeling comes aside from the poetic devices that Emily uses (such as iambic pentameter, personification, contradictions) her use of symbolisms makes the reader question and wonder about why it is that things are done, and the overall point in even doing them. The first stanza begins in a quatrain form, and leads the reader in with the first line "After great pain, a formal feeling comes-

Emily Dickinson once said, “Dying is a wild night and a new road.” Some people welcome death with open arms while others cower in fear when confronted in the arms of death. Through the use of ambiguity, metaphors, personification and paradoxes Emily Dickinson still gives readers a sense of vagueness on how she feels about dying. Emily Dickinson inventively expresses the nature of death in the poems, “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280)”, “I Heard a fly Buzz—When I Died—(465)“ and “Because I could not stop for Death—(712)”.

Emily Dickinson a modern romantic writer, whose poems considered imaginative and natural, but also dark as she uses death as the main theme many times in her writings. She made the death look natural and painless since she wanted the reader to look for what after death and not be stuck in that single moment. In her poems imagination play a big role as it sets the ground for everything to unfold in a magical way. The speakers in Dickinson’s poetry, are sharp-sighted observers who see the inescapable limitations of their societies as well as their imagined and imaginable escapes. To make the abstract tangible, to define meaning without confining it, to inhabit a house that never became a prison, Dickinson created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but not yet realized. She turned increasingly to this style that came to define her writing. The poems are rich in aphorism and dense

There are several lines within this poem referring to motifs that revolve around pain and emotional outlet. The lines “to thrust all that life under your tongue!— / that, all by itself, becomes a passion / death’s a