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 "grief" and "mourning"......

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Title: Pain Has An Element Of Blank
Approximate Word Count: 1228
Approximate Pages: 5 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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