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Emily Dickinson

Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast

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After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes Dash the Nerv Sits Ceremonious Like Tombs Dashe

After great pain a formal feeling comes dash the nerve sits ceremonious like tombs dash it will sound like there is a directors commentary in Morse code running simultaneously to my own monologue. Ted Hughes the brilliant British poet said that you couldn't remove the dashes without deadening the wonderfully naked voltage of the poem so he felt that they were crucial. I think this meter propels us forward more and I think that's because the speaker is talking about being propelled about moving into automaton mode as part of this coping with that initial great pain.

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