Suffering attempts to unite Biblical epic, Classical myth, Renaissance romance, Romantic poetry, medieval lyric, Sufi mysticism, Victorian aestheticism, and modern philosophy within a single architectural vision. Its central claim is radical: humanity’s deepest tragedy is not exile from Eden or the hostility of the universe, but the mind’s continual construction of its own Paradise, its own Hell, and finally its own suffering.

Suffering is a philosophical epic in which Dean rewrites Milton, Dante, Keats, Rumi, Spenser, Wilde, and others into one visionary journey. Paradise becomes an epistemological Hell where the mind constructs its own reality through binary thought. The narrator finally discovers she too is imprisoned, her obsessive love becoming her personal Hell. The poem’s originality lies in transforming vast literary traditions into a single tragic vision.