Visiting hour- Stanza 2

Question 1

“seems a corpse”

Answer 1

.Connotations of death, suffering and illness
.This suggests that the hospital is a place where people come to die and that those who occupy the wards and corridors are no longer living. This is foreshadowing the inescapable future ahead of him, and emphasises the inevitability of death.

Question 2

“trundled”

Answer 2

.Connotations of
.This suggests

Question 3

“vanishes heavenward”

Answer 3

.Enjambment
.This is effective as it suggests how the corpse appears to have suddenly vanished by magic, and emphasises the finality and isolation of death; it is irreversible. It highlights how knowledge towards the existence of an afterlife is absent.

Question 4

“heavenward”

Answer 4

.Connotations of
.This suggests that the