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Visiting Hour Quotes Analysed
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Just a few quotes from the poem that I've analysed. Didn't get a chance to do the imagery ones but they won't be too difficult anyways to understand.
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scottish
english #higher
maccaig #poem #analysis
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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!
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