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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN HOSPITAL: 3. INTERIOR, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gaunt brown walls Last Line: O, a gruesome world! Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals | |||
The gaunt brown walls Look infinite in their decent meanness. There is nothing of home in the noisy kettle, The fulsome fire. The atmosphere Suggests trail of a ghostly druggist. Dressings and lint on the long, lean table -- Whom are they for? The patients yawn, Or lie as in training for shroud and coffin. A nurse in the corridor scolds and wrangles. It's grim and strange. Far footfalls clank. The bad burn waits with his head unbandaged. My neighbour chokes in the clutch of chloral . . . O, a gruesome world! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HAVING BEEN ASKED WHAT IS A MAN? I ANSWER by PHILIP LEVINE NEW YEAR'S EVE, IN HOSPITAL by PHILIP LEVINE THE DEMOCRATIC DIME by EVE MERRIAM THIS DID NOT HAPPEN by THYLIAS MOSS |
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