Quotes

Question 1

Theme of loss

Answer 1

“Fruitless fruits” , “books that will not be read” , “so many deaths” , “growing fainter”

Question 2

People/place

Answer 2

“What seems a corpse/heavenward” , “ green and yellow corridors” , “the hospital smell” , “white cave of forgetfulness”

Question 3

Suffering

Answer 3

“A withered hand trembles on its stalk” , “growing fainter” , “books that won’t be read, fruitless fruits” , “white cave of forgetfulness” , “eyes move behind eyelids too heavy to raise”

Question 4

Isolation

Answer 4

“White cave of forgetfulness” , “black figure in a white cave” , “I will not feel, I will not feel, until I have to”

Question 5

Nature

Answer 5

“Combs my nostrils” , “so many deaths” , “glass fang guzzling not giving” , “withered hand trembles on its stalk” , “fruitless fruit”

Question 6

Human existence

Answer 6

“What seems a corpse” , “heavenward” , “so much pain, so many deaths, so many farewells” , “black figure”