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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 …

…about the experience and nature of "Pain." She makes no tangible references about the circumstances of her "Pain," leaving the reader to deal only with a indeterminate, abstract notion to relate to. In only relating the "Element of Blank" to its place temporally and spatially, her only hypothesis about the mechanism of "Pain" concerns its cyclicality. Her sole focus on this structure avoids discussion of any other aspect of the experience or sensation of "Pain."