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Poet: William Carlos Williams
Poem: Complaint
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May 10 2011
Comment 2 of 2, added on February 5th, 2009 at 7:54 PM.
The title suggests the double meaning of the nature of the complaint. That is, the narrator's complaint of being called away from his own life to tend to the medical complaint of one of his patients. Initially, he goes because it is his duty: "they call me and I go." It is a cold night and he must drive on a "frozen road," but he is a man who lives up to his obligations> He will not let those he is tending see his annoyance at being called out. He will "smile, enter and shake off the cold" when he gets there. Inside his resentment bubbles up. The middle of the poem focuses on his own interior complaints, but by the end he is kind toward his patient "picking hair from her eyes" and watching over her "with compassion."
Denise from United States
Comment 1 of 2, added on February 5th, 2006 at 11:36 AM.
this poem was very interesting at first i thought it was a complaint
Ale from United States
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The title suggests the double meaning of the nature of the complaint. That is, the narrator's complaint of being called away from his own life to tend to the medical complaint of one of his patients. Initially, he goes because it is his duty: "they call me and I go." It is a cold night and he must drive on a "frozen road," but he is a man who lives up to his obligations> He will not let those he is tending see his annoyance at being called out. He will "smile, enter and shake off the cold" when he gets there. Inside his resentment bubbles up. The middle of the poem focuses on his own interior complaints, but by the end he is kind toward his patient "picking hair from her eyes" and watching over her "with compassion."
Denise from United States