Those Annual Bills
Those Annual Bills - meaning Summary
Recurring Financial Annoyance
A comic lament about the yearly arrival of bills and debts that revive memories of past pleasures now gone. The speaker mocks how ordinary foods once enjoyed are reduced to reminders of expense, and imagines that even after his death the ritual of billing will persist, with future writers likewise cursing the same recurring nuisance. The tone blends humor, irritation, and resigned acceptance.
Read Complete AnalysesThese annual bills! these annual bills! How many a song their discord trills Of "truck" consumed, enjoyed, forgot, Since I was skinned by last year's lot! Those joyous beans are passed away; Those onions blithe, O where are they? Once loved, lost, mourned--now vexing ILLS Your shades troop back in annual bills! And so 'twill be when I'm aground These yearly duns will still go round, While other bards, with frantic quills, Shall damn and damn these annual bills!
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