There is a pain -- so utter -- - A poem by Emily Dickinson


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Emily Dickinson - There is a pain -- so utter --

There is a pain -- so utter --
It swallows substance up --
Then covers the Abyss with Trance --
So Memory can step
Around -- across -- upon it --
As one within a Swoon --
Goes safely -- where an open eye --
Would drop Him -- Bone by Bone.

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Poet: Emily Dickinson Poem: 599. There is a pain -- so utter -- Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Year: Published/Written in 1955 Poem of the Day: Jul 23 2002 Comment 1 of 1, added on April 9th, 2007 at 8:28 AM. It's about depression, the trance-like state in which people who are depressed move through life. Stephen Cope(author of Yoga and the Quest for the True Self)describes Dickinson as someone who "wrestled magnificently with depression," writing poetey to live. Barbara Vann from United States More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, There is a pain -- so utter --, has received one comment so far. Click here to read it, and perhaps post a comment of your own.

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Poet: Emily Dickinson Poem: 599. There is a pain -- so utter -- Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Year: Published/Written in 1955 Last read: 2013-05-24 22:26:57 Poem of the Day: Jul 23 2002 Viewed 8109 times. Added Jan 9 2004.

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