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An uncertain purpose, a troubling situation, a breakup, is bestowed upon a woman in "The Piercing" by Christine Garren. The blatant ending of the relationship has caused this woman anguish and has caused her pain. Through imagery and comparative language, the central theme of the poem illustrates that one with a life of reliance on happiness from a partner, or a relationship, will amount in mournfulness and instability.
In between each line of the poem there are spaces, gaps, breaks, fulfilling the implications from Garren of a cavity within a woman's life. The imagery of spaces that Garren includes not only helps to better imply the titles meaning, "The Piercing," but it implies the void this woman consumed because of her annulled relationship. The spaces depict her feeling of depletion as a loss within her life, a feeling of emptiness, what his "leaving caused," (Garren, 2). Garren also uses the gaps to symbolize the problems and difficulties her speaker is experiencing from her......

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