Visiting Hour Quotes Flashcards
Combs my nostrils
Imagery the small is being compared to a comb the smell is pungent and intrusive
Green and yellow
Word choice connotations of vomit and puss enthuses discomfort
Corpse
Word choice connotations of death shows the poet has a poor mindset
Trundled
Word choice lack of care and disregard shows the poet is feeling hopeless as why care for the dead
Vanishes
Heavenward
Enjambment to emphases heavenward word choice as they actually go up in a lift but the poet is constantly thinking of death
I will not feel I will not
Feel,
Repetition intensifies the control he seeks as his feeling are too painful
I have to.
Last line and short sentence shows his detachment
Nurses walk lightly and swiftly
Their eyes still clear
Contrast with how the poet and nurses deal w death
Here and up and down and there
Unusual syntax emphases how busy the nurses are
Rep is so much so many
How often nurses deal w death
Ward seven . She lies
Full-stop emphases his pause and struggle to enter the room
White cave of forgetfulness
Metaphor the white sheet surprising her hospital bed is being compared to her souls being captured in a white cave.
A withered hand trembles hand trembles on its stalk
W.c withered suggests dying
A and it’s dehumanizing the patient
A glass fang is fixed not guzzling but giving
A vampire is compared to a medical drip he sees both a taking from her
Eyes move behind eyelids to heavy to raise
So weak and enjambment emphasizing behind eyelids to heavy