Visiting Hour Quotes

Question 1

Combs my nostrils

Answer 1

Imagery the small is being compared to a comb the smell is pungent and intrusive

Question 2

Green and yellow

Answer 2

Word choice connotations of vomit and puss enthuses discomfort

Question 3

Corpse

Answer 3

Word choice connotations of death shows the poet has a poor mindset

Question 4

Trundled

Answer 4

Word choice lack of care and disregard shows the poet is feeling hopeless as why care for the dead

Question 5

Vanishes
Heavenward

Answer 5

Enjambment to emphases heavenward word choice as they actually go up in a lift but the poet is constantly thinking of death

Question 6

I will not feel I will not
Feel,

Answer 6

Repetition intensifies the control he seeks as his feeling are too painful

Question 7

I have to.

Answer 7

Last line and short sentence shows his detachment

Question 8

Nurses walk lightly and swiftly

Their eyes still clear

Answer 8

Contrast with how the poet and nurses deal w death

Question 9

Here and up and down and there

Answer 9

Unusual syntax emphases how busy the nurses are

Question 10

Rep is so much so many

Answer 10

How often nurses deal w death

Question 11

Ward seven . She lies

Answer 11

Full-stop emphases his pause and struggle to enter the room

Question 12

White cave of forgetfulness

Answer 12

Metaphor the white sheet surprising her hospital bed is being compared to her souls being captured in a white cave.

Question 13

A withered hand trembles hand trembles on its stalk

Answer 13

W.c withered suggests dying

A and it’s dehumanizing the patient

Question 14

A glass fang is fixed not guzzling but giving

Answer 14

A vampire is compared to a medical drip he sees both a taking from her

Question 15

Eyes move behind eyelids to heavy to raise

Answer 15

So weak and enjambment emphasizing behind eyelids to heavy

Question 16

But the distance of pain that neither she not I can cross

Answer 16

Can cross enjambent and also emphases his isolation