English - Norman MacCaig Quotes

6 poems ?

Visiting hour Aunt Julia Baskimg Shark Assisi Brookly Cop Hotel room

What are some main themes in the poems?

-death/loss -suffering -isolation -imagery -strong characters -personal experience -contrast

isolation quotes ? (Visiting hour)

"White cave of forgetfulness" "None left but the distance of pain that neither she nor I can cross"

Isolation quotes (Aunt Julia)

"I could not answer he/I could not understand her" "By the time I had learned a little she lay silenced"

Isolation quotes (Brooklyn cop and hotel room

12th floor)

Death/loss quotes (visiting hour)

"Seems like a corpse/vanishes heavenward" "I will not feel

Death/loss quotes (Aunt Julia)

"By the time I had learned a any she lay silenced" "Absolute black" "Getting angry

Death/loss quotes (Brooklyn Cop)

"He hoped it

Suffering quotes (visiting hour)

"A withered hand trembles on its stalk" "The distance of pain that neither she nor I can cross" "I will not feel

Suffering quotes (Aunt Julia)

"Getting angry

Suffering quotes (Brooklyn cop)

"What clubbings

Suffering quotes (hotel room

12th floor)

Personal experience (Visiting Hour)

"Combs my nostrils" "I will not feel

Personal experience (Aunt Julia)

"I could not answer her p/ I could not understand her" "Hers was the only house where I've lain" "But I hear her still

Personal experience (hotel room

12th floor)

Contrast (Visiting hour)

"Black figure in her white cave" "Clumsily rises" vs "lightly

Contrast (Aunt Julia)

"Very loud and very fast" vs "she lay

Contrast (Brooklyn cop )

"Gorilla with a nightstick

Contrast (hotel room

12th floor)

Setting (Visiting hour)

"Green and yellow corridors" "Ward 7. She lies" "White cave of forgetfulness"

Setting (Aunt Julia and Brooklyn cop)

"She was winds pouring Welty"

"Phoebes whamburger and Louie's place"

Setting (hotel room

12th floor)

Use of sound (Aunt Julia)

"Her right hand drew yarn marvellously out of the air" "Winds pouring Wetly"

Use of sound (hotel room

12th floor)

Imagery (Visiting Hour)

"Combs my nostrils /as they go bobbing along" "Miraculously carrying their burden" "White cave of forgetfulness" "A withered hand trembles on its stalk" "The distance of pain that neither she nor I can cross" "Black figure in her white cave"

Imagery (Aunt Julia)

"Drew yarn marvellously out of the air" "Crickets being friendly" "She was buckets and water flouncing into them" "She was winds pouring wetly" "She was brown eggs

Imagery (Brooklyn cop)

"Built like a gorilla but less timid" "Thin tissue over violence" "He is a gorilla" "Should the tissue tear

Imagery (hotel room

12th floor)

Strong characters (visiting hour)

"I will not feel

Strong characters (Aunt Julia)

"She wore men's boots" "She was buckets and water flouncing into them" "She was winds pouring wetly" "She was brown eggs

Strong characters (Brooklyn cop)

"Built like a gorilla but less timid" "Two hieroglyphics on his face that mean trouble" "He hoped it

Effective conclusion

VH- "books that will not be read and fruitless fruits" AJ- "She lay silenced" BC- " who had to be his victims" HR- "the frontier is never somewhere else

Discomfort

VH- "combs my nostrils" HR- "damaged insect" "jumbo sized dentists drill" "blood glazed on the sidewalk" A- "whose eyes wept pus