Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Visiting Hour Quotes Analysed
- 'What seems a corpse'
- Preoccupied by death
- Discomfort
- 'I will not feel, I will not feel until I have to'
- Repition
- The visit will be difficult but he won't feel any emotion until the situation worsens
- Has to face the problem sooner or later
- Matra
- Enjambment
- Emphasizes the word 'not'
- 'Lightly, swiftly'
- Positive
- Conveys a good business
- Delicate
- 'Here up and down and there'
- Inversion
- Jumbling the syntax
- Conveys the image of the hospital as nurses move threw corridors
- 'Carrying their burden'
- Heavy
- Weighs them down
- Finds it miracolous that the nurses can still hold themselves together
- 'after so many farewells'
- Nurses are emortionally strong
- 'So many'
- Repition
- Conveys the scale of burden the nurses carry
- 'Miraculously'
- Religion
- Nurses thought of as God's angels
- Admiring the nurses and their hard work
- 'Ward 7'
- Caesura
- Lets us know where the writer is
- As if we are there too
- Interior monologue
- 'A glass fang is fixed , not guzzling not giving'
- Imagery
- Conveys the image of a vampire
- Patient is receiving treatment to prevent her from death
- http://authspot.com/poetry/visiting-hour-by-norman-mccaig-analysis/
- Short analysis of poem.. found it helpful!