visiting hour

Question 1

Themes

Answer 1

Death, mortality, coping with emotions

Question 2

Structure

Answer 2

Free verse

Stanzas get longer as he faces his emotions

Question 3

Tone

Answer 3

Anguish, suppression, bleak

Question 4

Combs my nostrils

Answer 4

Personification/ metaphor of the strength of the smell

Synestesia - smell becomes a physical force

Question 5

Nostrils

Answer 5

Synecdoche - as if body and mind are detached from each other - he is not accepting what is coming, not letting emotions in

Question 6

Bobbing along

Answer 6

Connotations of joy carefree. He is ready to face his emotions

Question 7

Green and yellow

Answer 7

Connotations of sickness - the patients and nerves

Question 8

Seems

Answer 8

Presumption

Question 9

Corpse

Answer 9

Introduces the idea of death and expectation of death

Question 10

Trundled

Answer 10

Undignified - death is common

Question 11

Heavenward

Answer 11

Connotations of the afterlife, the beyond

Hospital is the place between life and death

Question 12

I will not feel, I will not

Answer 12

Shows his desperation not let his emotions overcome him

Question 13

I have to

Answer 13

Until he sees her or she dies

Question 14

Nurses walk lightly, swiftly,

Answer 14

Change from his struggle. Nurses ability to cope

Grace, elegance to their movements association with angels

Question 15

Here and up and down and there,

Answer 15

Syadetic list (repetition of and)

Makes them seem ever present

Question 16

Their slender waists miraculously

Answer 16

Physically superhuman, miracles

Question 17

Carrying their burden

Answer 17

Metaphor, slight but emotionally strong they carry the weight of their emotions but it’s their job

Question 18

Of so much pain, so

Answer 18

Repetition of so - disbelief at their ability to cope

Question 19

So many farewells

Answer 19

Repetition of so = disbelief at their ability to cope

Farewells = possible belief in the afterlife

Question 20

Ward 7. She lies

Answer 20

Short sentence reflects the shocking illness

Question 21

White cave of forgetfulness

Answer 21

Metaphor - shes in the space between life and death. She is losing her grip on reality possibly because of strong pain relief

Question 22

A withered hand

Trembles on its stalk

Answer 22

Metaphor- arm being compared to a dying plant, life is slipping visibly away

Question 23

Eyes move
Behind eyelids too heavy
To raise

Answer 23

Emphasises their fragility and weakness

Question 24

A glass fang is fixed

Answer 24

Metaphor: drip, giving medicine

Alliteration conveys pain and violence

Question 25

Not guzzling but giving

Answer 25

Looks horrific but is supplying her with life

Continues monster/ vampire imagery

Question 26

Distance shrinks

Answer 26

Literally he is coming closer to them

Question 27

Distance of pain

Answer 27

Barrier of illness- they will never be as close as they once were

Question 28

Can cross

Answer 28

Alliteration suggests the finality of the visit

Question 29

She smiles

Answer 29

Faint sign of life

Question 30

Black figure

Answer 30

World reduced to black and white

She doesn’t recognise him

Suggestion of the grim reaper

• is that who she is expecting?
• she is close to that point

Question 31

Clumsily

Answer 31

Physical response to the meeting. He is overwhelmed

Question 32

Round swimming waves of a bell

Answer 32

Synesthtesia, he is discombobulated

Question 33

Dizzily

Answer 33

Physical response to the meeting. He is overwhelmed

Question 34

Growing fainter,

Answer 34

In memory, fading away

Question 35

Fruitless fruits

Answer 35

Alliteration, oxymoron, pointless, wont be eaten, only heading towards death. Draws parallels to the patient