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Published: June 30, 2020, 12:39 a.m.

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We will be taking a look at Emily Dickinson\'s poem "After great pain, a formal feeling comes "

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/emily-dickinson

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After great pain, a formal feeling comes

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After great pain, a formal feeling comes \\u2013

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The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs \\u2013

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The stiff Heart questions \\u2018was it He, that bore,\\u2019

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And \\u2018Yesterday, or Centuries before\\u2019?

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The Feet, mechanical, go round \\u2013

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A Wooden way

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Of Ground, or Air, or Ought \\u2013

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Regardless grown,

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A Quartz contentment, like a stone \\u2013

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This is the Hour of Lead \\u2013

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Remembered, if outlived,

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As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow \\u2013

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First \\u2013 Chill \\u2013 then Stupor \\u2013 then the letting go \\u2013

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