Doctors
Doctors - meaning Summary
Healing as Moral Duty
Kipling addresses mortality and suffering, contrasting human vulnerability with the need for steady, impersonal compassion. The poem laments that people die before completing their plans and cannot escape pain, then calls for resolute helpers—doctors or healers—who calmly confront the body’s mysteries. These figures are portrayed as ethically committed and dispassionate, seeking only permission to restore wholeness and to relieve the exposed indignity of human pain.
Read Complete AnalysesMan dies too soon, beside his works half-planned. His days are counted and reprieve is vain: Who shall entreat with Death to stay his hand; Or cloke the shameful nakedness of pain? Send here the bold, the seekers of the way-- The passionless, the unshakeable of soul, Who serve the inmost mysteries of man's clay, And ask no more than leave to make them whole.
1923
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