“Pain Has the Element of Blank”

liver411

[I]By Emily Dickinson[/I]

[B]Pain—has an Element of Blank—
It cannot recollect
When it begun—or if there were
A time when it was not—

It has no Future—but itself—
Its Infinite contain
Its Past—enlightened to perceive
New Periods—of Pain.[/B]

liver411

[I]Emily Dickinson[/I]

[B]My life closed twice before its close;
   It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
   A third event to me,

So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
   As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
   And all we need of hell.[/B]

Butterfly

Did you guys see the pattern in the poetry? I can't remember the technical name for it but it's like, "iambic - something" :-P Anyhooz, if you count the syllables in each line you'll notice a pattern.

See, for the first line in "ain has the element of blank"

"ain—has an Element of Blank—"

That's 8 syllables.
Pain-1
has-1
an-1
Element-3
of-1
Blank-1

That makes 8....

and in the next line has 6:

"It cannot recollect"

It-1
cannot-2
recollect-3

Basically, the pattern is 8,6,8,6...throughout that poem...and it's the same in "My life closed twice before its close..."

^_^

Emily Dickinson was one smart cookie. Think about writing a poem and being perfectly aware that their was a pattern like that...I mean- that takes a lot of work, ya know?

Yeah...she died a lonngggg time ago and lived a loooonngggg time ago. We think she might have been agoraphobic because of her journal entries....because she was so afraid of going outside and everything. She never even meant to have any of her poems published, but her relatives found over 6,000 of them in her drawers after she died.

She only wore white linen- of course that isn't a proven fact- but that's what everyone saw her in...

She tried to go to college...but she couldn't handle it because she missed her family so much. Her dad was pretty smart and teached her a lot- she LOVED mythology and could read Greek and Latin...always reading...

Yeahhh...that's just some info I found- Ummm...there's more...but yeahhh- I am tired and I need to clean my room.

Adios,

Butterfly

matrix

Thanks Butterfly for the introduction
Emily Dickinson and her poems are new to me.

Butterfly

Introduction?! :: wowza :: But...everyone knows Emily Dickinson- even if you haven't read her poems- still know of her...mehhhh...I like her poetry and stuff tho. She was a bit odd but I like that. Wheeee...

^_^

matrix

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I am kind of person poor in literature, especially in American literature. I am a digital guy [em09][em09]