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 WALT WHITMAN IN THE CIVIL WAR HOSPITALS by DAVID IGNATOW A FIELD HOSPITAL by RANDALL JARRELL BALLADE OF DEAD ACTORS by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY |
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