Emily dickenson’s after great pain, the formal feeling comes: literary and stylistic approaches

Emily Dickenson is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest poets in the history of American literature. Her poetic power lies in her poetic style, spiritual themes and the accuracy of diction. Her poetry is profoundly stirring as it depicts acutely the nature and challenges in lives of human beings with profound feelings. Her poem After the Great Pain the formal feeling comes is regarded as the greatest poem in pain and death. This paper introduces Emily Dickinson as one of the brilliant American writers. Subsequently, the paper analyzes the poem literarilyas it substantiates Dickenson’s craftsmanship, in which she depicted three cohesive organic stages of pain and death in three successive stanzas. Thereafter, the paper examines the most dominant stylistic levels as proposed by Geoffrey N. Leech. More accurately, the paper analyzes the graphlogical and semantic deviations as they are the most prevailing and ostensible levels in the poem the poem.