Visiting Hour Flashcards
The hospital smell
First thing he notices
Combs my nostrils
Metaphor
Smell seems to physically force itself into his nose
As they go bobbing along
They - word choice
His nose des not feel like part of him
Confusion in an uncomfortable and strange environment
Green and yellow corridors
Colours associated with sickness and vomit
Makes the atmosphere unpleasant straight away
Corpse
Thinks of a dead body instead of a person showing death is on his mind
Trundled
Careless, quickly
Heavenward
Word choice
Links to idea of death
I will not feel, I will not feel
Repetition to emphasise nerves
He doesn’t want to think about what’s next
Until I have to
No escape
Wants to be detached and control his emotions
Nurses walk lightly swiftly
He can see a lot of nurses around him
Walking quick, business like and busily
But also quite so as not to disturb patients
Here and up and down and there
Word order changed with lots of ands to slow pace of reading
Emphasises that nurses are everywhere
Using distances Emphasises walking
Carrying their burden
Metaphor
Burden of the job
Pain and suffering similar to that of bearing a child
So much pain
Worried about his relative
Word era how they do it
Their eyes still clear
Not troubled by everything they’ve seen
Ward 7
Like he is reading the sign on the door
He’s arrived and is bracing himself
A white cave
Metaphor
When curtains are closed hospital room looks like a cave
Of forgetfulness
Brain injury/dementia/medication
He’s worried she won’t know him
Withered hand
Shows her hand is wait her old or thin from illness
Trembles on its stalk
Like a flower
Thin, fragile, weak
Eyelids too heavy
Weak,tired, unconscious
A glass fang is fixed
I’v drip
Gives idea of vampire and blood
Idea of blood contrasts pale and colourless
Guzzling
Extends on vampire comparison
Distance shrinks till there is none left
He walks towards her
The distance of pain that neither she nor I can cross
His emotional pain and her physical pain means that they can’t communicate
She smiles a little
Wishful thinking
Black figure
Grim reaper/death
White cave (2nd)
Repetition
Contrasts black figure
Clumsily rises
Awkward
Not in control
In the round swimming waves of a bell
Sound waves, visiting over
Metaphor
Gives idea of water and him struggling to get to land which is a metaphor for his feelings
Books that will not be read
And fruitless fruits
Pointless gifts
Oxymoron
Feels his visit didn’t make a difference
