"How Annandale Went Out"
“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 worse 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.”
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The voice is that of a doctor about Annandale who has commited suicide - Annandale is clearly EA's older brother Dean (seen in photo below), the doctor is also Dean - a rich and profound reading of the human struggle and the failure to exist.
Horace Dean Robinson, M.D.
Robinson Family Home
See:
http://www.earobinson.com/pages/sites/site02.html - a virtual tour of Robinson's Gardiner, Maine.
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