Surgical Ward Flashcards
what form is it?
a sonnet
Surgical Ward is a sonnet, the _____ conforms, however the sestet doesn’t; there is no Volta, no rhyme and non-uniform meter
octave
when was it written?
1940
“Only ___ is shared // and anger, and the idea of love”
happiness
“And cannot //imagine ____”
isolation
“And believe//In the common world of the ___”
uninjured
“even a scratch we can’t recall when ___”
cured
“HIs knowledge of the world is restricted to// the treatment that the _ are giving”
instruments
“They are and ___; that is all they do”
suffer
what are the opening lines?
‘They are and suffer, that is all they do’
suffering and pain narrow the patient’s world and isolate patients who…
‘lie apart like epochs from each other’
what is ‘truth’?
‘how much they can bear’
impassable chasm between the sick and the healthy shown in the rhythm….
the first two stanzas are rhymed quatrains and focus on the sufferers ‘they’ - the last two stanzas are unrhymed tercets and focus on the healthy ‘we’
