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Dickinson, Emily Pain has an element of blank

	On-Line Text
Genre	Poem
Keywords	Pain, Patient Experience, Suffering
Summary	This poem considers, from the perspective of one who is experiencing it, the overwhelming, apparent timelessness of pain. The author aptly states that pain "cannot recollect / When it began", and that "it has no future but itself."
Source	Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Publisher	Avenal
Edition	1982
Editors	Mabel Loomis Todd & T. W. Higginson
Place Published	New York
Miscellaneous	First published: 1890
Annotated by	Chen, Irene and Aull, Felice
Date of Entry	08/01/93
Last Revised	05/07/01