Give Me a Doctor
Give Me a Doctor - meaning Summary
A Wry Request for Comfort
A speaker asks for a comforting, indulgent doctor rather than a moralizer or alarmist. The poem uses wry, comic imagery to request a physician who accepts bodily flaws, tolerates vices, and delivers the blunt truth of mortality with warmth and humor. It frames death as inevitable but manageable when addressed without judgment, privileging human sympathy and lightness over sanctimony or clinical severity.
Read Complete AnalysesGive me a doctor partridge-plump, Short in the leg and broad in the rump, An endomorph with gentle hands Who'll never make absurd demands That I abandon all my vices Nor pull a long face in a crisis, But with a twinkle in his eye Will tell me that I have to die.
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