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In this poem, Emily Dickinson creates a detached and hopeless view of pain and its effect. She achieves this through her excellent use of literary devices in the three stanzas which each represent a stage of the Dickinson writes of. ... By categorizing the feeling as “formal,” Dickinson establishes that the feeler is detached from the emotion and that it is almost expected that this feeling comes. ... By raising the questions of origin, Dickinson points out that the state of “chill” is so complete and effective, that the feeler is not certain of their own identity. ... ” The simile Dickinson presents goes even further to take the feeler away from being human—now it is an unfeeling, uncaring stone—in the stage of “Stupor.
Approximate Word count = 559
Approximate Pages = 2.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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