Studied by 6 people“combs my nostrils“
Word Choice - Uncomfortable
“Black Figure”
Word choice - Death
“Waves of a bell”
Word Choice - End of visiting hour
“Seems a corpse”
Word Choice - They are afraid of death
“many deaths, their eyes
still clear after”
Word choice - Showing strength after seeing so many upsetting scenes.
Green and yellow corridors
Synecdoche - Sterile
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
Fruits
Word choice - suggest health and life, but this woman is very ill and about to die
She lies
in a white cave of forgetfulness.
Imagery - Shows isolation, cut off from the rest of the world.
trundled into a lift and vanishes
Word Choice - Shows how life can come and go
A withered hand
trembles on its stalk.
Imagery - Shows weakness in the arm, trembling, withered, old and dying.
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
heavenward
Word Choice - Represents heaven because they are in a hospital
I will not feel, I will not
feel, until
Structure/Enjambement - What the patient is going through
distance of pain that neither she nor I can cross
Word Choice - his emotional pain and her physical pain are too hard to overcome
books that will not be read
Word choice - The tone shows that these gifts are pointless as they will not be read after death
Nurses walk lightly, swiftly
Word Choice - This is saying that in tough times they still get on with their work
Into an arm wasted
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.
books that will not be read
Word choice - The tone shows that these gifts are pointless as they will not be read after death
their slender waists
Word Choice - Shows how well composed they are through all the difficulty.
distance of pain that neither she nor I
can cross.
Word choice - She is somewhere he could never be
carrying their burden
of so much pain
Word Choice - They have been through pain and misery that they have made a legacy out of it
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