Watch The Belle of Amherst (The Belle of Amherst). Then, in an essay no longer than two full pages, please select one of Emily Dickinson's poems featured in our text and relate it to something you learned about the poet from viewing this remarkable play.
SELECTED POEM:
After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes (341)
After great pain, a formal feeling comes -
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs -
The stiff Heart questions 'was it He, that bore,'
And 'Yesterday, or Centuries before'?
The Feet, mechanical, go round -
A Wooden way
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought -
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone -
This is the Hour of Lead -
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow -
First - Chill - then Stupor - then the letting go -
by Emily Dickinson