There is a pain — so utter —
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"There is a pain — so utter —" is a poem written by American poet Emily Dickinson. Dickinson's poems were not published until after she died. Dickinson grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts where her father did not support women in publishing and believed that literature could negatively alter the human mind. Dickinson's poems are not titled and therefore are recognized after the first line. Like many of Dickinson's poems, "There is a pain — so utter—" was substantially changed when it was first published in 1929. The original version, with Dickinson's typical dashes, was restored by scholar Thomas H. Johnson for his 1955 edition of The Poems of Emily Dickinson.
