Surgical Ward Flashcards

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1
Q

what form is it?

A

a sonnet

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2
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Surgical Ward is a sonnet, the _____ conforms, however the sestet doesn’t; there is no Volta, no rhyme and non-uniform meter

A

octave

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3
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when was it written?

A

1940

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4
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“Only ___ is shared // and anger, and the idea of love”

A

happiness

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5
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“And cannot //imagine ____”

A

isolation

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6
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“And believe//In the common world of the ___”

A

uninjured

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7
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“even a scratch we can’t recall when ___”

A

cured

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8
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“HIs knowledge of the world is restricted to// the treatment that the _ are giving”

A

instruments

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9
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“They are and ___; that is all they do”

A

suffer

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what are the opening lines?

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‘They are and suffer, that is all they do’

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suffering and pain narrow the patient’s world and isolate patients who…

A

‘lie apart like epochs from each other’

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12
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what is ‘truth’?

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‘how much they can bear’

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13
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impassable chasm between the sick and the healthy shown in the rhythm….

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the first two stanzas are rhymed quatrains and focus on the sufferers ‘they’ - the last two stanzas are unrhymed tercets and focus on the healthy ‘we’

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