After great pain, a formal feeling comes Themes

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes" doesn't give us a scream-y, whiny version of suffering. Instead, it delves into what it's like after we've experienced a major pain. Sometimes this includ...

The speaker of "After great pain, a formal feeling comes" definitely doesn't have a crystal clear memory of her past. She spends the whole poem looking back on a past trauma with blurry eyes. (Gues...

Emily is no stranger to the theme of death; we're guessing they're BFFs since the theme comes to hang out in so many of her poems. In "After great pain, a formal feeling comes," the theme stops by...