Dickinson, "Pain Has An Element Of Blank..."
Although cryptic in language and structure, Dickinson gives her work an
instinctually vivid sense of emotion. Her examination of the feeling of
pain focuses in on only a few of the subtler nuances of pain that are
integral parts of the experience. She draws in on an "Element of Blank"
that she introduces in her opening line. In exploring pain, she proposes
that this "blankness" is a self-propagating force that is subject to the
dynamic forces of time, history and perception, but only to an extent.
Her first mention of "Pain" in the first line does not distinguish this
particular emotion as being of a particular brand of pain. She substitutes
no other words for "pain." By suggesting no other words for "pain," she
chooses the most semantically encompassing term for the emotion. She thus
gives her work the responsibility of examining the collective, general
breadth of "pain." Her alternatives offer connotations that color her usage
of "Pain": the sense of loss in......
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