An opinion: “This poem clearly draws from the poet’s experience as a pediatrician who had attended hundreds of newborns, and whose work was often to describe with clinical exactness the symptoms of his patients.” Discuss

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  • Lines 16–18 especially seem to contain a metaphor of newborn infants. The adjectives mottled, dried, sluggish could occur in a physician’s report. In lines 9–13 also, the description of bushes, trees, and vines seems painstakingly exact in its detail.



Recalling his life as writer and physician in an article for a popular magazine, Williams once told how poems would come to him while driving on his daily rounds. “When the phrasing of a passage suddenly hits me, knowing how quickly such things are lost, I find myself at the side of the road frantically searching in my medical bag for a prescription blank” (“Seventy Years Deep,” Holiday [Nov. 1954]: 78). “By the road to the contagious hospital” was one such poem, originally recorded on prescription blanks (Roy Miki, “Driving and Writing,” William Carlos Williams: Man and Poet, ed. Carroll F. Terrell [Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 1983] 113).
Scholars have speculated that the brief lines of many of Williams’s poems may have been decreed by the narrow width of a prescription blank, but we don’t buy that guess. Had he wanted longer lines Williams would have turned the blanks sideways or composed in smaller handwriting.

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