Tuesday, January 08, 2008

'Visiting Hour' notes

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Anonymous said...

P- In the opening stanza the smell of the hospital is emphasised
Q- "combs my nostrils"
E- This gives the reader a powerful image of the unpleasentness of the situation and the smell he is experiencing.

P- The unpleasentness is further discribed in the following lines
Q- "green and yellow corridors"
E- This quote has connotations of body fluids creating a effective visual image of the unpleasent enviroment he is in.

Anonymous said...

The stance in this paragraph is morbid. The writer uses negative language throughout.

“what seems a corpse” this shows the start of the writer’s obsession with death. As he starts seeing death everywhere. What he thinks is a corpse could well be a person moving ward.

“trundled” this is negative and has connotations of “corpse” being pushed in to the lift with out care into the lift.

“vanishes heavenward” this has connotations of death and the after life as the “corpse” getting moved to another floor rather than heaven. But due to the mans grief he automatically makes the man think of death related circumstances like corpses and heaven

Anonymous said...

Stanza 5.

Caesura ‘Ward 7’ – This conveys his sight to the reader. He stops to compose himself as he has reached his destination. Also by using numerals to emphasise what we are seeing.

‘white cave of forgetfulness’ – behind a cover. In some cultures when old people fell they are a burden they go to a cave to die. Her surroundings indicate the white cave, by the white curtain which screens her off from the rest of the world.

‘A withered hand trembles on its stalk’ – This conveys the weakness and is afraid of the inevitable ending. Also personification a with ‘trembles on its stalk’

‘arm wasted of colour’ – conveys the weakness of her and the frailty of her condition. Also suggests that she is fading away.

‘glass fang is fixed
Not guzzling but giving’ – unpleasant imagery suggests fluids are taking from her not giving. Suggests its futility as it appears to cause her pain. Alliteration of ‘f’ sound is aggressive, also with ‘guh’ sound suggests his revulsion.

‘eyelids to heavy to raise’ – enjambment to emphasise the effort. Also is suggests that she is able to understand but is unable to communicate as she is not able to open her eyes.

‘distance of pain that neither she nor I
can cross’ – Shows that he cannot cross the threshold of her pain. He can get as close as he wants but he can never feel her pain. Conveys the distance between life and death. This is deliberately emphasised by position of ‘I’ and separating the word ‘nor’. So close yet so far.

The stance of the stanza is dread, pity and helplessness .

Anonymous said...

Stanza 4 is about administration and not the feelings of the poet.

P-the change of subject
C-line one stanza 4.
Q-"nurses walk lightly, sweiftly,"
E- the use of changing subject, is to take the witers mind of off what is to lie ahead of him.

P-the repition of the words "and" and "so" and the breathless, list, sentence, concisting of objanment, word choice, work order and repetion.
C- the whole of stanxa 4.
Q- "here and up and down and there ... so much pain so many deaths..."
E-the repetion of "and" and "so" emphasise the jobs the nurses are doing and how much they have to deal with. it also shows affectivly how they is a large number of them and how they are everywere.

Anonymous said...

Stanza 2

This is the first stanza of the poem in which the reader feels sympathetic towards the writer.

The stanza has a morbid tone mainly through good word choice:
'seems' shows he is poised for bad news and expecting the worst. Enjambment emphasises the words 'corpse', 'vanishes' and 'heavenwards' reinforcing his negative view of the situation and also linking to the theme of death.
Similarly, the word 'trundled' suggests a sense of inelegance towards the trolley and the person on it, again reinforcing his pesimestic view of his plight.

Stanza two only refers to the sense of sight which contrasts with the previous stanza which referred mainly to the sense of smell. Appealing to the senses helps the reader empathise with the writers grim situation.

Anonymous said...

Stanza 3 - The poet addresses his own thoughts.
Repition - "I will not feel" he is trying to avoid being affected by what is enevitable.
"until" shows that something bad is enevitable where as "unless" would show that it only may happen.
Holding himself together.

Anonymous said...

Stanza 5

“Ward 7.”
The use of the numerical use of the number “7” give the reader a sense of the sign outside the ward, signifying that the writer has reached his destination. The writer conveys to the reader that he has stopped to compose himself with the use of caesura this makes the reader gain sympathy for the writer as he demonstrates the sense of helplessness as he visits the relative.

“White cave of forgetfulness”
this is a metaphor of the hospital booth that his relative is in. The use of “white cave” makes the reader feel as if the person is being engulfed by the booth.

“A withered hand”
This hand has been withered it was worn away, its no longer has grand as it once was. This emphasises the authors sense of pity towards the ill person.

“into an arm wasted”
gives sense to the age of the person the author the person is visiting- this showing the person is old.

“a glass fang is fixed not guzzling but giving”


“but the distance of pain that neither she nor I can cross”
Although the physical distance between the two is maybe a few feet or even inches, they might as well be miles apart the author cannot connect with the person because the barrier that is being created by the pain. This of course makes the author feel helpless he does not know what he can do to help the person deal with their pain. This quote also contains the longest line in the entire poem, this may be as the form of the poem is mimicking the content.

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