Poetry · Character
Bill Bartlett
A doctor whose roadside encounter with a maimed young cadet becomes a wry meditation on war, injury, and the absurd arithmetic of ambition.
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Also known as Dr. Bill Bartlett
First appearance: poetry
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Mentioned as a pious dunce from the Bulletin who replies to Ingersoll's arguments.
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Bill Bartlett moves through Bierce's verse as the kind of physician-poet who listens to a stranger's confession and turns it into a moral. The wounded cadet he consoles is a mirror of the era's martial vanity: a man…
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The emotional and psychological peak occurs when the speaker’s obsessive pursuit of the divine rose fragrance…
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