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Gein Shani adds to it- the dark night, stars hidden by clog’,
the spiritual darkness in her life, On her first meeting with the ascot oe
without stars and is horrid with lightning and storm. Though it ig 7
dancing gir! is bright with her jewels shining like stars. Though she carrieg TE
she is in darkness (metaphorically) ie., she is ignorant, The ascetic q Smt
light because he has seen the inner light (avatara jyoti). The poet describes he
in darkness, Light and darkness are used quite symbolically and iron
second meting, the sky is bright with full moon(Buddha attained entigiggd “OF
moon nigh), whereas her life is dark with sorow being stricken with eM ont
The darker side of life is shown here. Her very statement during her ginee°* Pea
"the dusty earth is nota fit bed for you" anticipates her own fy esting
ignorant, A sannyasi knows that everything returns tg qi = Songitt
y andthe palaces erected on the earth ate also subject to decay (1, sty a
). During her second meeting with the ascetic she is seen Tying seat
same dusty earth, In the first meeting she steps on the breast of 0
second it said that she lay “at his feet’. How her life has taken an
illustrated in the poem.
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laden with flowers are described as “aching”. It implies that it is a burden
of youth in one's life too is like the spring season. The woman described ag "4° Peg
the wine of her youth” experiences the pain of this pride later. Youth too is anek
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Tony Hoagland was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, He eared a wa
University of lowa and an MFA from the University of Arizona. Hoagland’, “° &
known for its acerbic, witty take on contemporary life and “straight talk." Ip Poetry
itis said about him that “Hoagland is demonically in ouch with the American®
He belongs to that wagon-circle of American poets who believe in 4 ito,
reader" Hoagland is a poet of a ragged, half-satirical, half-lyrical intensity, typ °°"
ruminate on the ground sve feel we know we are on, then showing us that we mkt
not only pulls the rug from under our feet when it comes to the moral complace, Ont
platitudes that we live by but he does the same with our given poetic certains iy
Hilarious, searing poems that break your heart so fast you hardly notice you're ies,
knee deep in a pool of implications. They are of this moment, right now - the pres,
we're already homesick for. The writing is classic Hoagland: accessible and cor/yaet™tt
sometimes humorous, as he scrutinises everything from mortality and the emote
arise while sitting in a hospital. The work raises important questions ‘about the id th,
of playing at innocence’, why our culture can't seem to make progress and why lazarg
seems to recognise the impending environmental crisis. 20 0,
Tony Hoagland was the author of seven collections of poetry, including “Priest 1
Therapist Treats Fear of God! ‘What Narcissism Means to Me’ finalist for the Ne
Book Critics Circle Award, and Donkey Gospel, winner of the James Laughlin Awank
the Academy of American Poets. He was also the author of two collections of at!
‘Twenty Poems That Could, Save America’ and ‘Other Essays and Real Sofistikashy,
Essays on Poetry and Craft, He taught for many years at the University of Housty
Hoagland died in October 2018. Over the course of his celebrated career, Tony Hoaglay
ventured fearlessly into the unlit alleys of emotion and experience. The Poems in "Ty
Up the Ocean examine with an unflinching eye and mordant humour the reality of liv,
and dying in a time and culture that conspires to erase our inner lives. Hoagland
signature wit and unparalleled observations take in long-standing injustices, the atrocity
of American empire and consumerism, and our ongoing habit of looking away. He depi
in his poems that perseverance depends on gymnastics of scepticism and comedy
dogged quest for authentic connection, and the consolations of the natural world.
poems are a fitting testament to Hoagland’s ‘devotion to the capaciousness and att|
poetry.’
NE 1111 11m = (Poem in detail/Summary) >
‘Why I like the Hospital’ encourages a reader to look more closely at the "mundane" world
and records all the love one finds. He feels the hospital is a place where people express
their feelings openly and do not stifle their grief, sentiments or emotions as that can be
unhealthy and depressive. The poem begins with the speaker stating he likes a hospital.
This place does not appear to be very loveable at first but then he says it is a place where
a person does not have to pretend to be in a good mood because pathos and bad mood
RUNDEEP'S RHAPSODY(A COLLECTION OF ISC Poems) CLASS-XI 31 |
i i it i ive a free rein to emot;,
table in a hospital. The poet believes one can give a free re notion,
feelings in a hospital and if one wants to feel sad or cry then he/ she is free to cry wit ay
inhibition or feeling that people will find it odd. 4
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The poem is set inside a hospital and gives us searing and heartrending ima
patents suffering from terminal diseases but in the typical Hoagland style; hilar: 4
a way that heightens the pathos. The poet believes one can give a free rein to ema 8
and feelings in a hospital and if one wants to feel sad or cry then he/she is free t¢ 3
without inhibition or feeling that people will find it odd.
0m 1108 (Style ) a a,
Tony Hoagland in his poem Why I like the Hospital,’ uses a conversational tone an
simple, relatable language. His language is accordingly dizec, chatty, engaging, man
man (not afraid to be masculine), eschewing the hyper-economy of certain poetties, Hy
verse forms are very free. Hoagland is a poet of a ragged, half-satirical, hatéyigs
intensity. Hilarious, searing poems that break your heart so fast you hardly notice you
standing knee deep in a pool of implications.
The poem consists of eight stanzas- each stanza is of four lines and in free verse berey
of any rhyme scheme. The lines flow into one another carrying their meaning alon,
in the poetic device of enjambment as in stanzas 2-3-4, 6-7-8. The length of the ling
creates a rhythmic effect and emphasizes the pathos of the two different patients, This
is evident prominently in stanza 2 where each subsequent line is shorter than th,
previous one and serves to highlight the pathetic plight and pathos of the cancer riddey
mother who is in a quandary to explain her state to her children and the bald git] with
one breast amputated as a result of the disease
The poem abounds in images that appeal to our senses because they are images of griet
and pain and thus relatable. The poet in the second stanza itself bring us face to face with
the grief of a mother suffering from cancer faced with the dilemma of finding the right
way to break the news to her young children; then he introduces us to the bald girl who
feels despondent seeing the shunt over her missing breast. The reader can actually feel
the pain at these ‘images.
Tony Hoagland evokes a stifling and terrifying atmosphere of the hospital through the
use of simile and metaphor. In the first stanza the reader can actually feel this
claustrophobic atmosphere of the hospital as he views the "closed beige doors like a
prison wall.”
The extreme loneliness and astonishment of a sick person who is confronted by the truth
of his ailment is conveyed by the following line: "each sick person standing in the middle
of a field, like a tree wondering what happened to the forest.”
The endless sense of waiting that each patient feels and the weariness that burdens him
consequently is aptly conveyed by the metaphor used in stanza 5: "the long prairie of
the waiting”. Similarly human callousness and indifference is symbolically conveyed by
the "fresh flowers tossed into the wastebasket.”
The poem is a first person narrative and a reflection of his observations and feelings.
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