After+great+pain,+a+formal+feeling+comes

PAIN Dickinson believes that after pain, you have to experience numbness in order to let go. S 3 __stanzas__, 13 __lines__, fixed form, closed Common, elevated, formal language
 * __End rhyme__**: grown and stone
 * __Slant rhyme__**: tombs, comes
 * __Pattern:__** a,/a,b,b,c,d,e,f,f,g,/g,h,h
 * __Capitalization__**: to show emphasis and importance (Nerves, Tombs, He
 * __Punctuation:__** hyphens for importance, question yourself in society--? Mark

C L **__Alliteration:__** formal feeling, wooden way
 * __Background__**: consumed w/death –private -depressed
 * __Lit period/impact__**: between trans. And gothic= mixed beliefs (dark and indiv.)
 * __Hist. events__**: civil war
 * __anaphora:__** the, the
 * __Repetition__**: the, the
 * __Parallelism:__** the nerves, the heart, the feet

I **__Sight__**: as freezing persons recollect the snow F **__Simile:__** nerves sit ceremonious like tombs
 * __Personification__**: heart questions, nerves sit ceremonious
 * __Symbolism__**: nerves, like tombs

T **__Topic__**: an experience of emotional pain
 * __Angle:__** she is experiencing it herself

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