The historical evidence makes clear that acupuncture was once an established and highly respected therapy used by medical doctors across South Carolina to treat a wide range of patient ailments. At the end of the same stanza the speaker recalls his grief "as the hope-hour stroked its sum," and in the second stanza he refers to himself, wistfully, as "a time-torn man." Time and the woman are against him, no less than Nature and the woman in "Neutral Tones." The luxuriant self-pity of these lines, their dignified indignation at the woman’s lack of “pure lovingkindness,” anticipates the mature work of Yeats.Ī variety of primary sources show that while acupuncture has been practiced in South Carolina by non-physicians only since the 1970s, its full history in the state begins much earlier. "You did not come," the poem begins, "And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb…" Set in grammatical parallel, the inaction of "you" and the action of "Time" conspire to disappoint. In "A Broken Appointment," which finds Hardy’s speaker quarreling with a woman over an unrequited love, it’s Time in particular that allies with the Other. His poems tend to know where they stand, and argue with each other more than with themselves: that is the source of their limitations but also of their pugnacious greatness. Abstract That is, he rarely brings such markedly clashing attitudes into close conjunction.
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