Visiting Hour

Question 1

The hospital smell combs My nostrils

Answer 1

Establishes setting
Unpleasant smell, discomfort

Question 2

As they go bobbing along

Answer 2

Humorous image -trying to distract self from hospital visit
Bobbing has connotations of lost or cast adrift

Question 3

Green and yellow corridors

Answer 3

Helps picture hospital
Connotations of sickness and illness
Can’t escape fact he’s In hospital

Question 4

What seems a corpse

Answer 4

Unsure of what he sees
Shows death is in thoughts
Finality of death

Question 5

Trundled

Answer 5

Heavy, slow moving

Question 6

Vanishes

Answer 6

Disappears and doesn’t return - like when someone dies

Question 7

Heavenward

Answer 7

Shows inevitability of death

Question 8

I will not feel, I will not feel

Answer 8

Repetition - shows determination to not feel
Feels like a mantra or chant

Question 9

Until I have to

Answer 9

Aware that he will have to address his feelings

Question 10

Nurses walk lightly, swiftly

Answer 10

Move elegantly with purpose
Word Choice

Question 11

Heare and there and everywhere

Answer 11

Mive quickly and all over the place

Question 12

Their slender waists

Answer 12

Shows amazement with how much nurses cope with

Question 13

Miraculously

Answer 13

Shows awe at what they are doing. Like angels coping with jobs. Envious that he cannot cope as well.

Question 14

Burden

Answer 14

Shows weight of what nurses are doing

Question 15

So much pain, so many deaths… so many farewells

Answer 15

List
Emphasises how much they have to deal with

Question 16

Eyes still clear

Answer 16

They don’t show any emotion despite pain they see and experience

Question 17

Farewells

Answer 17

Euphemism for death. Showing he can’t escape thoughts of death

Question 18

Ward 7

Answer 18

Shocked by ward. Must face feelings

Question 19

White cave of forgetfulness

Answer 19

Metaphor
Bed and illness have isolated her and made her forget
Isolation

Question 20

Withered

Answer 20

Word choice
Decay/dry/shrivelled up and losing life

Question 21

Trembles

Answer 21

Weak due to illness

Question 22

Its

Answer 22

Impersonal pronoun - empty shell

Question 23

Stalk

Answer 23

Metaphor of flower - usually romantic but emphasised illness

Question 24

Glass fang

Answer 24

Connotations of vampire

Question 25

Guzzling not giving

Answer 25

Emphasises needle

Question 26

Distance shrinks

Answer 26

Walking to hospital bed

Question 27

Distance of pain that neither she nor I can cross

Answer 27

Sense of futility Physical and emotional pain Emotional pain is a barrier

Question 28

Smiles a little

Answer 28

His visit has brought her comfort

Question 29

Black figure in her white cave

Answer 29

Repetition of cave imagery Contrast of black and white Black connotations of death He isn't recognized

Question 30

Clumsily

Answer 30

Overcome by experiences

Question 31

Dizzily... fainter

Answer 31

Vision blurs due to illness

Question 32

A book that won't be read, fruitless fruits

Answer 32

Hopelessness Helpless in fate of death