Hospital Window | Themes
Objective Observer
One recurring theme in James Dickey’s poetry is the idea of the main persona as an objective observer. At first, it may appear absurd to include “The Hospital Window” in this category, for this poem’s general premise—a son and his dying father— would speak of anything but objectivity. And yet, Dickey is a poet who can make the ironic seem natural and who can take his speaker to extremes without getting him helplessly tangled in a bizarre setting or in the emotional plot of the work.
In “The Hospital Window,” the glass itself is a...
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