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Annotated by:
- Chen, Irene
- Aull, Felice
- Date of entry: May-07-2001
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."
Miscellaneous
First published: 1890
Primary Source
Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Publisher
Avenal
Place Published
New York
Edition
1982
Editor
Mabel Loomis Todd & T. W. Higginson