Pain Expands the Time
poem 967
Pain Expands the Time - meaning Summary
Duration Distorted by Pain
Dickinson explores how intense pain warps subjective time. She presents a paradox: pain can make moments feel vast, with "ages coil[ing] within" a single mind, yet it can also compress experience when attention is seized by the hurt. The poem treats the brain as a narrow circumference containing both expanded, timeless perceptions and contracted, fleeting awareness. It foregrounds psychological immediacy and the strange elasticity of duration under suffering.
Read Complete AnalysesPain expands the Time Ages coil within The minute Circumference Of a single Brain Pain contracts the Time Occupied with Shot Gamuts of Eternities Are as they were not
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