Poetry

Question 1

Visiting Hour. 2 quotes for second section. (Seeing death everywhere, distracting himself)

Answer 1

• ‘What seems a corpse’
• ‘trundled into a lift’
• ‘I will not feel, I will not feel, until I have to’

Question 2

Visiting Hour. 3 quotes for third section. (Focusing on staff and lack of emotion in them)

Answer 2

• ‘here and up and down and there’
• ‘miraculously’
• ‘so much pain, so many deaths’

Question 3

Visiting Hour. Four quotes from fourth section (arriving at wife’s ward)

Answer 3

• ‘ward 7’
• ‘white cave of forgetfulness’
• ‘glass fang’ ‘not guzzling but giving’
• ‘distance of pain that neither she nor I/ can cross’

Question 4

Visiting Hour. Final section. (from wife’s perspective, effect on poet)

Answer 4

• ‘swimming waves of a bell’

* ‘only books that will not be read and fruitless fruits’

Question 5

Visiting Hour. 3 quotes for first section (initial description of the hospital)

Answer 5

• ‘the hospital smell combs my nostrils’
• ‘green and yellow corridors’
• ‘what seems a corpse’

Question 6

Assisi. 3 quotes from the first section. (Brutal description of the beggar’s appearance)

Answer 6

• ‘hands on backwards’
• ‘slumped like a half-filled sack’
• ‘tiny twisted legs’

Question 7

Assisi. 3 quotes from second section. (Hypocrisy of church)

Answer 7

• ‘the suffering of His Son’
• ‘how clever it was of Giotto’
• ‘passed the ruined temple outside’

Question 8

Assisi. 2 quotes for third section (Wealth of tourists)

Answer 8

• ‘rush of tourists’

- clucking contentedly’

Question 9

Assisi. Three quotes for final section (apathy of tourists and priest)

Answer 9

• ‘passes the ruined temple outside’
• ‘a voice as sweet as a child’s’
• ‘fluttered after him’