[burningtr33]

"They called it Annandale--and I was there
To flourish, to find words, and to attend:
Liar, physician, hypocrite, and friend,
I watched him; and the sight was not so fair
As one or two that I have seen elsewhere:
An apparatus not for me to mend--
A wreck, with hell between him and the end,
Remained of Annandale; and I was there.

"I knew the ruin as I knew the man;
So put the two together, if you can,
Remembering the worst you know of me.
Now view yourself as I was, on the spot--
With a slight kind of engine. Do you see?
Like this. . . You wouldn't hang me? I thought not."

Can someone plz help my analyze this poem. I need the theme and couple literary devices on it
thnx.

[nate95366]

I am by no means a poetry expert, so maybe I'm just exposing my ignorance here, but here's my take:

Someone - a doctor, no less - was hung, and the author was in the crowd (and has been in the crowd at one or two other hangings), but has now realized that the hanging should not have happened because all men make a ruin of their lives, not just the ones who are hung.

Agreement?

No?