Visiting Hour Flashcards
“Combs my nostrils
As they go bobbing along
the “Green and yellow corridors”
“Combs” a present sounding word, it’s taking her mind off of it.
Unusual things
Colours of sick - distracts himself from a humble thing
“I will not feel, i will not
Feel until
I have to”
This stanza is about himself
He feel determination, fear and overwhelmed.
He wants to feel numb = enjambement
“Their slender waists miraculously
Carrying their burden”
“Miraculously” sounds surprised.
Their waists, they can cope with such a job and still be so slim.
“A glass fang is fixed,
Not guzzling but giving “
“Fang” - imagery he thinks it’s hurting her. It is evil and poisonous her
But then he realises that it’s not hurting her.
“The hospital smell”
Everyone knows it
It draws attention to the poem
It’s a descriptive short sentence.
“Not smaller, leaving behind only
Books that will not be read
And fruitless fruits”
He is realising he is soon going to have to leave.
Oxymoron and alliteration of “f”
The last but who’s that she will have to leave things behind that she has not done yet
