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and trill autobiographical. the poet is visiting a very ill pelifave in to avoid his emotions. When he arrives he is overcome by greit and anquish feeling that it has been pointless. -personay neven verses and lines emphasises experience. his strees. metaphor, the The hospital smell combs my nostrils hospital smell is overpowering. nes cisassociated himself from his word choice, colours have as they go bobbing along → experience. (senechdocs) connotations of sicknes, green and yellow corridors. (further stresses the poet) sensory imagary. F monosylables (ne really doesnt want to) Visiting Hour Sensory imagary word choice, something everyone is familiar with (univerial experience) the frequency of the nursis un pierant dealings. Structure, minor senta -ncc turms the poem, he has arrived. at his destination. word choice, withered 'r trembled'' wasted' suggests the patient. is close to death. too fragile to open her eyes. What seems a corpse -> Enjubment I word choice, highlights words assocreted with death. is trundled into a lift and vanishes heavenward. Jumbolic of journey to heaven. 1 will not feel, + will not repitition (chant) trys to control his feel, until 2 motions, chanting to himself. Pushes the emotion I have to. away Nurses walk lightly, swiftly, here and up and down and there, repitition of so, stresstheir slender waists miraculously in awe of the nurses, suggests carrying their burden he cant understand how they do it. of so much pain, so many deaths, their eyes still clear after clarity of vision. so many farewells - last word...
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in the stanza final word. Structure, the unusual order is emphasising the number of nurses he sees A 'metaphor, not carrying around something. only sad feelings. contrast. no colour, metaphor the white hospital sneets are Ward 7. She lies cave - like, shows the isolation of the woman. in a white cave of forgetfulness. A withered hand - metaphor, suggests the womans budy is trembles on its stalk. Eyes move flower) sprittle and frail (compared to clying behind eyelids too heavy dehumanising word. to raise. Into an arm wasted of colour a glass fang is fixed, metaphor suggests the drip is not guzzling but giving, poets greit. vampire-like. Htorror image, shows And between her and me aiteration emphasises. metaphor, cuntrast in distance shrinks till there is none left colours 2mphasises but the distance of pain that neither she nor I distance, black fiquit can cross. Could relate to 'grim' 'reaper death. enjambement, portures the gap between lines to empharise distance repitition between patient and visitor. emphasises how much She smiles a little at this distance there is between them. black figure in her white cave word choice 'little' Show, who clumsily rises - word choice, in the round swimming waves of a bell how much her illness is limiting her, she cant and dizzily goes off, growing fainter, respond fully. not smaller, leaving behind only books that will not be read and fruitless fruits. 'Swimming 'Clumsity "dizzlily' waves' Suggest he is struggling with emotions. pun, growing fainter 'suggests he is growing fainter in the vision of the patient & the poet oxymoron, the patients in ability feels faint. to eat the fruit or read the books establishes lack of life.