English - Visiting Hour
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“combs my nostrils“
Word Choice - Uncomfortable
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“Black Figure”
Word choice - Death
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“Waves of a bell”
Word Choice - End of visiting hour
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“Seems a corpse”
Word Choice - They are afraid of death
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“many deaths, their eyes
still clear after”
still clear after”
Word choice - Showing strength after seeing so many upsetting scenes.
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Green and yellow corridors
Synecdoche - Sterile
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White cave
Word choice - contrast between the speaker as a black figure
\-woman in the “white cave” who is dying, while the “black figure” is alive and well
\-woman in the “white cave” who is dying, while the “black figure” is alive and well
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Fruits
Word choice - suggest health and life, but this woman is very ill and about to die
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She lies
in a white cave of forgetfulness.
in a white cave of forgetfulness.
Imagery - Shows isolation, cut off from the rest of the world.
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trundled into a lift and vanishes
Word Choice - Shows how life can come and go
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A withered hand
trembles on its stalk.
trembles on its stalk.
Imagery - Shows weakness in the arm, trembling, withered, old and dying.
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She smiles a little at this
Word choice - shows how much her illness is limiting her and that she cannot respond fully to her visitor
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heavenward
Word Choice - Represents heaven because they are in a hospital
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I will not feel, I will not
feel, until
feel, until
Structure/Enjambement - What the patient is going through
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distance of pain that neither she nor I can cross
Word Choice - his emotional pain and her physical pain are too hard to overcome
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books that will not be read
Word choice - The tone shows that these gifts are pointless as they will not be read after death
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Nurses walk lightly, swiftly
Word Choice - This is saying that in tough times they still get on with their work
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Into an arm wasted
of colour a glass fang is fixed,
not guzzling but giving.
of colour a glass fang is fixed,
not guzzling but giving.
Word Choice - This shows how even the evil of the fang can actually be helpful by giving.
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books that will not be read
Word choice - The tone shows that these gifts are pointless as they will not be read after death
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their slender waists
Word Choice - Shows how well composed they are through all the difficulty.
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distance of pain that neither she nor I
can cross.
can cross.
Word choice - She is somewhere he could never be
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carrying their burden
of so much pain
of so much pain
Word Choice - They have been through pain and misery that they have made a legacy out of it