"A Parody on 'Mary's Ghost;' or, The Doctors and Body-snatchers" by Thomas Hood is a funny poem that makes fun of death, body-snatching, and old stories about ghosts. It's about a ghost named Mary who shows up to see her sweetheart, William, and she's not happy! Grave robbers dug her up, chopped her into pieces, and sold her body parts to doctors. Mary tells William where all her parts ended up in a joking way, making light of a serious issue affecting society and scientific research. It's all designed to be amusing, but it also makes you think about how people treated the dead back then and whether it's okay to do anything for science.
A Parody on "Mary's Ghost;" or, The Doctors and Body-snatchers. A Pathetic Tale, With Numerous Additions.
By Thomas Hood
When a distraught spirit returns to her lover, she chillingly details how her corpse became a collection of medical specimens, forever changing their relationship.
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About the AuthorThomas Hood was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works. Hood, never robust, had lapsed into invalidism by the age of 41 and died at the age of 45. William Michael Rossetti in 1903 called him "the finest English poet" between the generations of Shelley and Tennyson. Hood was the father of the playwright and humorist Tom Hood (1835–1874) and the children's writer Frances Freeling Broderip (1830–1878).
Thomas Hood was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works. Hood, never robust, had lapsed into invalidism by the age of 41 and died at the age of 45. William Michael Rossetti in 1903 called him "the finest English poet" between the generations of Shelley and Tennyson. Hood was the father of the playwright and humorist Tom Hood (1835–1874) and the children's writer Frances Freeling Broderip (1830–1878).
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