Dickinson, Emily : After great pain, a formal feeling comes

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Literature Annotations

Genre	Poem
Keywords	Death and Dying, Depression, Grief, Mourning, Pain, Suffering
Summary	The narrator describes the stages undergone by a person who has experienced great pain and suffering: numbness, loss of the sense of time, the great weight of depression, and finally a poetic comparison to the experience of freezing to death: "First--Chill--then Stupor--then the letting go--."
Source	Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Publisher	Avenal
Edition	1982
Editors	Mabel Loomis Todd & T. W. Higginson
Place Published	New York
Miscellaneous	First published: 1929
Annotated by	Aull, Felice and Chen, Irene
Date of Entry	08/01/93