0
Karinaykh Posted 17 years ago
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes" by Emily Dickinson
Hi Everybody,
I've just started to study poetry this semester (well, i m a year 1 student...)
and I am doing my reading,
which is the poem "After great pain, a formal feeling comes" by Emily Dickinson
I have a few questions about it, please help me. Thanks a lot!!
Q1. Poems with stanzas of two lines are Couplet, three lines - Triplet, and how about this one??? Does it has a "name" just like the previous two?
Q2. Quite a lot of poems (at least for those I've just read) have common nouns starting with capital letters in the middle of the line,(e.g. He [line 3 of the 1st stanza] ) do these words have special meanings?
Thank you so much!!!
After great pain a formal feeling comes - Emily Dickinson
1 After great pain a formal feeling comes--
2 The nerves sit ceremonious like tombs;
3 The stiff Heart questions--was it He that bore?
4 And yesterday--or centuries before?
5 The feet, mechanical, go round
6 A wooden way
7 Of ground, or air, or ought,
8 Regardless grown,
9 A quartz contentment, like a stone.
10 This is the hour of lead
11 Remembered if outlived,
12 As freezing persons recollect the snow--
13 First chill, then stupor, then the letting go.
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/formal.html
I've just started to study poetry this semester (well, i m a year 1 student...)
and I am doing my reading,
which is the poem "After great pain, a formal feeling comes" by Emily Dickinson
I have a few questions about it, please help me. Thanks a lot!!
Q1. Poems with stanzas of two lines are Couplet, three lines - Triplet, and how about this one??? Does it has a "name" just like the previous two?
Q2. Quite a lot of poems (at least for those I've just read) have common nouns starting with capital letters in the middle of the line,(e.g. He [line 3 of the 1st stanza] ) do these words have special meanings?
Thank you so much!!!
After great pain a formal feeling comes - Emily Dickinson
1 After great pain a formal feeling comes--
2 The nerves sit ceremonious like tombs;
3 The stiff Heart questions--was it He that bore?
4 And yesterday--or centuries before?
5 The feet, mechanical, go round
6 A wooden way
7 Of ground, or air, or ought,
8 Regardless grown,
9 A quartz contentment, like a stone.
10 This is the hour of lead
11 Remembered if outlived,
12 As freezing persons recollect the snow--
13 First chill, then stupor, then the letting go.
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/formal.html
Top answer
Q1. Poems with stanzas of two lines are Couplet, three lines - Triplet, and how about this one??? -- These are quatrains.
- Q1.
- Poems with stanzas of two lines are Couplet, three lines - Triplet, and how about this one???
- -- These are quatrains.
- Q2.
- g.
Get the Weekly English Kit 📬
New words, one handy idiom, and a 2-minute quiz — delivered to your inbox to keep your streak alive.
3 Answers
0
.
Q1. Poems with stanzas of two lines are Couplet, three lines - Triplet, and how about this one??? Does it has a "name" just like the previous two?-- These are quatrains.
Q2. Quite a lot of poems (at least for those I've just read) have common nouns starting with capital letters in the middle of the line,(e.g. He [line 3 of the 1st stanza] ) do these words have special meanin
Q1. Poems with stanzas of two lines are Couplet, three lines - Triplet, and how about this one??? Does it has a "name" just like the previous two?-- These are quatrains.
Q2. Quite a lot of poems (at least for those I've just read) have common nouns starting with capital letters in the middle of the line,(e.g. He [line 3 of the 1st stanza] ) do these words have special meanin
00
0
'He' is capitalized because it refers to Jesus Christ who has suffered a lot for the mankind. The capitalized 'Heart' refers to the intensity of the pain...
0
Related Questions