visiting hour Flashcards
poem
- ‘’ the hospital smell comb my nostrils’’
the metaphor emphasis the overwhelming smell of the hospital. Just as a comb is used to brush hairs so too is the poets suggest that the smell is getting so far up his noise that it could brush his nasal hair. The create s humour tone that suggest trying and distanced the speaker for the situation.
‘’ green and yellow ‘’
the colour has connotations of sickness. This suggests the speaker can’t escape the fact that they are in a hospitals and the speak feel he is surrounded by deaths.
’ what seem a corpses ‘’
this suggests the speaker is insure of the situation. The word choice of ‘’ corpses ‘’ has conations of deaths and suggests they are fearing the worst.
‘’ I will not feel , I will not feel’’
The repetition here is used to make it sound like a chant or a mantra. The speaker feels so inadequate in this situation and they are worried that they might not be able to hold it together.
‘’ between her and me ‘’
This is unusual expression normally we would say ‘’ us ‘’ this suggest that the illness has created a barriers between the speaker and his loved one.
‘’ here and up and down and there ‘’
the muddled syntax highlights the amount of charger the nurse has and the ease with the seemingly competed tasks. The speaker fells in awe of them.
‘’ distances of pian that neither she nor I can cross ‘’
the metaphor suggests a sense of loss just as pian is something that we can grasp or hold so too is the poet suggesting that his feeling for his loved one are not something he can escape. this also suggetest that phyclai thier close but menttally thier never togther agian
‘’ glass fang is fixed ‘’
the metaphor is a shocking images suggest vampire and pain just as a vampire such blood and take away life so too, but the fang is giving life instead of taking away.
‘’ black figure in her white cave ‘’
the metaphors suggest awareness of someone present in the room, this suggests the grim reaper to represented black and how close to death there are. The ‘’ white ‘’ contrast to emphasis the divide of death between them.
’ ward 7 ‘’
’the minor sentences suggest a turn point when the speaker is on their was to room where his loved one is. The speaker cant escaped it , they gave to face the challenged situation of love one dying and loss of connection , deaths is in able.
