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A friend of mine once told me that "poetry makes him feel ill". Some of the more common conditions like influe-stanza and Janedice or Poe-mentation of the skin are well known but here is a selection of some poetic ailments and injuries that really meter to people.
Tennyson Elbow-
Byron any further injury, this should sort itself out in no time. Kipling Arthritis- A Rud-Yard stick for every other condition one might face Ben(t) Jonson- It can happen to every man and not in his humerus. Will...em...Shakes Appear?- Carry a medical Bard on your person at all times
Robert Frost-bite - The Road Not Prescribed.
Walt Whiplash- Mobility is the soul of Whit
Plath feet When feet get Hughes and swollen.
Auden-iometry trouble W.H.at are you saying to me??
Severe Back Twain
When life gives you Clemens, make lemonade.
Conrad Aching
It's a Pulmonary Symbolism.
Sylvia Plath, aged 29, after discovering her husband's affair, in a letter to Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse Beuscher, her former psychiatrist (dated Friday, 20 July 1962)