Petition
Petition - meaning Summary
Supplication for Social Healing
A speaker addresses a powerful addressee with a litany-like petition for remedies to both physical and moral ailments. The requests move from cures for exhaustion, deceit, and social withdrawal to broader reforms: exposing healers, correcting cowardice, and inspiring new architecture and changed hearts. The poem blends concrete infirmities with social and spiritual renewal, framing reform as both practical healing and moral transformation.
Read Complete AnalysesSir, no man's enemy, forgiving all But will his negative inversion, be prodigal: Send to us power and light, a sovereign touch Curing the intolerable neural itch, The exhaustion of weaning, the liar's quinsy, And the distortions of ingrown virginity. Prohibit sharply the rehearsed response And gradually correct the coward's stance; Cover in time with beams those in retreat That, spotted, they turn though the reverse were great; Publish each healer that in city lives Or country houses at the end of drives; Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.
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