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THE MYSTERY OF PAIN by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: PAIN HAS AN ELEMENT OF BLANK; / IT CANNOT RECOLLECT
Last Line: NEW PERIODS OF PAIN.
Subject(s): PAIN; SUFFERING; MISERY;
Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.
.
It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.


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