Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Great Regulars: Emily Dickinson took the study of pain

very seriously, as she analyzed and dramatized it effects in her poetry.

Dickinson's poem, “After great pain” dramatizes for the human reaction to pain. No doubt, her own suffering prompted her to examine that phenomenon. She examined so she could understand, and her poem help us understand our own human predicament:

After great pain, a formal feeling comes --

from Linda Sue Grimes: BellaOnline: Emily Dickinson--Transcending Pain

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