Spring Comes to Murray Hill
Spring Comes to Murray Hill - meaning Summary
Workday Ennui in Comic Verse
Nash's poem presents a comic, self-aware office ennui: a clerk on Madison Avenue questions why he wastes time writing playful doggerel instead of working. He treats boredom like a bodily ailment, offering absurd cures and puns, invokes pilgrims and Midwestern places for humorous contrast, and longs to flee urban confinement to simpler streets. The tone is whimsical, jaunty, and lightly satirical about professional responsibility and the impulse to escape.
Read Complete AnalysesI sit in an office at 244 Madison Avenue And say to myself, You have a responsible job, havenue? Why then do you fritter away your time on this doggerel? If you have a sore throat you can cure it by using a good goggerel, If you have a sore foot you can get it fixed by a chiropodist, And you can get your original sin removed by St. John the Bopodist, Why then should this flocculent lassitude be incurable? Kansas City, Kansas, proves that even Kansas City needn't always be Missourible. Up up my soul! This inaction is abominable. Perhaps it is the result of disturbances abdominable. The pilgrims settled Massachusetts in 1620 when they landed on a stone hummock. Maybe if they were here now they would settle my stomach. Oh, if I only had the wings of a bird Instead of being confined on Madison Avenue I could soar in a jiffy to Second or Third.
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