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Analysis and comments on What The Doctor Said by Raymond Carver

Comment 3 of 3, added on February 24th, 2009 at 4:21 PM.

Really like this poem...just got a hint it may be up on my pre-leaving
exam tomorrow!

Geraldine Ryan from Ireland
Comment 2 of 3, added on June 18th, 2005 at 11:59 AM.

......he said are you a religious man do you kneel down /
in forest groves and let yourself ask for help /
when you come to a waterfall /
mist blowing against your face and arms /
do you stop and ask for understanding at those moments"..............i want
to believe these are the best five lines i've ever read in the english
language.

Kamal from United States
Comment 1 of 3, added on December 16th, 2004 at 2:10 PM.

I really do like this poem and the book it comes from, "A New Path From The
Waterfall". I wonder why it is listed under "Miscellaneous" poems. I also
wonder why more poems from that book (which thematically connects to this
one) are not here. I have in mind, specifically, the poems "Lemonade" and
"Gravy."

Would like to note the grave injustice that the Norton Anthology has done
to Carver. Not only is there no representation of his poetry in their
anthologies. They do not even acknowledge that Carver wrote poetry.
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Michael Morris from United States



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Poet: Raymond Carver
Poem: What The Doctor Said
Added: Feb 20 2003
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Poem of the Day: Nov 12 2009


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