The Poet Uses…

Question 1

Loss

Answer 1

Poet uses everyday items to symbolise everything that is lost with the relatives passing, also, poet sees death everywhere in the hospital

Question 2

People/place

Answer 2

Use of elements of hospital as a place saturated with death and dying, everyday object (IV) are deadly “glass fang”

Question 3

Suffering

Answer 3

Poem shows not only the suffering and death of the loved one, but also the speakers suffer in the loss of this person-dead flower, cave, etc

Question 4

Isolation

Answer 4

Illness is the final isolation from life and the world, friend is gone to far to communicate. Speaker is alone to visit, he doesn’t have anyone there to support him.

Question 5

nature

Answer 5

References to nature to describe death and dying; dead flower, fang sucking life out of woman. “

Question 6

Human existence

Answer 6

“Books that will not be read, fruitless fruit” whole poem is about him coming to the realisation that death is coming for his relative, he cannot bear it