Hospital Window | Spiritual Transcendence
In the following essay, the author contends that
the speaker of “The Hospital Window” has no
choice but to be alone in his experience with spiritual
transcendence.
“The Hospital Window” is a poem that takes readers inside the mind of a man trying to deal with the impending death of his father. This scenario may conjure up several typical images that accurately describe what he must be feeling—grief, great sorrow, even fear and anger. But this poem goes a step further in the realm of human response to a tragic event. The persona here experiences a sudden and overwhelming happiness, and he does so in a very unlikely place—the middle of a busy street. The oddity of his unforeseen euphoria, however, is not the main idea behind Dickey’s poem....
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