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Verse 1 gives the reader a very sensory description of the hospital. MacCaig mainly focuses on sight and smell, this allows the reader to feel as if they are there, walking through the hospital with him.
"combs my nostrils" - line 2 By mentioning the hospital smell is evocative. This quote suggests that the smell is overwhelming and irritating, showing MacCaig's discomfort.
synecdoche - "nostrils as they go bobbing along" - line 2/3 This is an unusual description as the nostrils are disembodied from him and they are floating along on their own. This suggests he is distanced from the experience and shows he is struggling to cope with the situation. This is an early indication that the visit being made is not going to be a pleasant one.
"green and yellow corridors" - line 4 The colours green and yellow emphasises his discomfort. These colours are the colours of disease, infection and puss.
Verse 2 focuses more clearly on the idea of death. This suggests that the poet is going to visit a dying loved one. Here it also suggests that the poet fears the worst for his loved.
"Trundled" - line 6 This suggests that the patient is being treated poorly, without dignity even. This shows he thinks the hospital the hospital is not giving the patients enough care and help.
"corpse" and "heavenward" These words help the continue the mood of verse 1 but help to focus more specifically on death.
enjambement- it is a continuation of the senses without a pause, which reinforces the idea that the poet fears the worst, as he may be too late to make his visit.
Verse 3 is simply the repetition of "I will not feel". This is for the poet’s own benefit, the poet is saying it to himself. The poet is trying to reinsure himself that he is strong enough to cope with the situation. The repetition creates a worried and tense mood at this point. "until I have to" - This shows us that death is inevitable.
The syntax [word order] of “here and there and up and down and there” is unusual. This suggests that the hospital is busy, and that the nurses are running about all over the hospital. Linking the words with ‘and’ makes this line have a sort of rhythm, which is accompanied by the rhyming of here and there. This continues the busy idea.
The poet is impressed that the nurses are able to deal with such a hard job. He wishes that he was able to cope with death like the nurses. But this is an unfair comparison between himself and the nurses, as these people deal with death in their jobs everyday. The poet is feeling sorry for himself, and we feel sympathetic towards him here. The poet respects the nurses.
The repetition of ‘so’ is uses to create an exaggerated effect of the number of deaths that the nurses have to deal with.
The poet's comparison to the nurses links to the theme of the inevitability of death. It shows that he is unable to cope with it, yet through the course of the poem he will have to try too. it shows that people can accept this inevitability.
Line 34: “Round swimming waves of the bell” is a metaphor, it gives an image of sound waves passing through the whiteness. Giving a sense of disorientation, as if we were now seeing from the patient’s eyes. “Swimming waves” is synaesthesia because the two words are fairly similar, in the sense that you swim in water and waves are related to water. It also sets a calm mood with the use of this reference. This calm mood is of the patient, not the visitor.
Line 35: The pun of “growing fainter” suggests the visitor is becoming fainter as he moves away, due to her poor eyesight, but it also suggests the poet may faint due to him feeling ill due to his sadness.
Line 37: “Books that will not be read” is a paradox. This puts emphasis on how the books will not be read. Books are made to be read but because of the patient’s state she will be unable to read them. He just felt that he had to bring her something. Here the poet is going through the visit as if she was well, although it is clear she is not. This shows a sense of futility in the poet’s actions.
Line 38: “Fruitless fruits” is an oxymoron. This continues the idea of the earlier paradox. It shows that she is not actually able to eat the fruit that he has brought due to her state, and thus the gift is useless. If she was able to eat it, it would not taste or smell the same as it would before she was ill. This emphasises the futility of the gift.
The alliteration of “f” here emphasises how uneventful and unsatisfying the “fruitless fruits” would be, the “f” sound imitates her being too tired and unwell to eat.
Caesura "Ward 7." line 19, the full stop provides the poet to pause to prepare himself for the visit. The full stop indicates his arrival and it puts the reader in the poet’s position as the reader stops too. The poet writes the number "7" as a numeral as it appears on the door, helping the reader to see what the poet does.
Metaphor - "She lies in a white cave of forgetfulness" line 20. a) The bed, screened off by a white curtain, in the centre of which she lies, this is compared to a cave; it is a "cave of forgetfulness" because she is barely conscious. b) The metaphor is appropriate as she is cut off from the rest of the ward as effectively as if she were in a cave in the side of a cliff. The fact that the curtains are well above the level or her head adds to the cave impression. As she is in a coma, she cannot communicate with the poet, nor he with her. c)The poet is immediately aware that the patient is inaccessible to him, and he to her. "White" adds sight to the feeling of inaccessibility, as if the poet is seeing her through a white haze or snowstorm, a white-out or "white noise" which impedes cultures in the past where old people when they became a burden were in caves in the hillside.
"A withered hand trembles on its stalk" line 22 Here the patient resembles a dying flower. This is appropriate because they are both delicate, they are both pale and wasting away. There may be traces off her former beauty but it is faded. The image suggests that the poet is looking at this woman with love but despite the ravages of the illness he still sees some of her former beauty.
“Into an arm wasted of colour a glass fang is fixed, not guzzling but giving” – lines 24/25 - fangs of a vampire being compared to a needle of a drip, both pierce the skin. - He knows that this needle is helping her but it is probably causing her pain and discomfort. Knows that medicine can’t help her as she is futile. - alliteration of the letter “f”, threatening sound - alliteration of the letter “g” – creates a repulsing image
situation - the poem shows the narrator visiting a dying relative in hospital. It takes us through the journey from the entrance of the hospital to the visit in the ward itself.
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27 comments:
Megan, Margaret and Laura
Verse 1 gives the reader a very sensory description of the hospital. MacCaig mainly focuses on sight and smell, this allows the reader to feel as if they are there, walking through the hospital with him.
"combs my nostrils" - line 2
By mentioning the hospital smell is evocative. This quote suggests that the smell is overwhelming and irritating, showing MacCaig's discomfort.
synecdoche - "nostrils as they go bobbing along" - line 2/3
This is an unusual description as the nostrils are disembodied from him and they are floating along on their own. This suggests he is distanced from the experience and shows he is struggling to cope with the situation. This is an early indication that the visit being made is not going to be a pleasant one.
"green and yellow corridors" - line 4
The colours green and yellow emphasises his discomfort. These colours are the colours of disease, infection and puss.
Verse 2 focuses more clearly on the idea of death. This suggests that the poet is going to visit a dying loved one. Here it also suggests that the poet fears the worst for his loved.
"Trundled" - line 6
This suggests that the patient is being treated poorly, without dignity even. This shows he thinks the hospital the hospital is not giving the patients enough care and help.
"corpse" and "heavenward"
These words help the continue the mood of verse 1 but help to focus more specifically on death.
enjambement- it is a continuation of the senses without a pause, which reinforces the idea that the poet fears the worst, as he may be too late to make his visit.
Verse 3 is simply the repetition of "I will not feel". This is for the poet’s own benefit, the poet is saying it to himself. The poet is trying to reinsure himself that he is strong enough to cope with the situation. The repetition creates a worried and tense mood at this point.
"until I have to" - This shows us that death is inevitable.
Martin & Mathew
The syntax [word order] of “here and there and up and down and there” is unusual. This suggests that the hospital is busy, and that the nurses are running about all over the hospital. Linking the words with ‘and’ makes this line have a sort of rhythm, which is accompanied by the rhyming of here and there. This continues the busy idea.
The poet is impressed that the nurses are able to deal with such a hard job. He wishes that he was able to cope with death like the nurses. But this is an unfair comparison between himself and the nurses, as these people deal with death in their jobs everyday. The poet is feeling sorry for himself, and we feel sympathetic towards him here. The poet respects the nurses.
The repetition of ‘so’ is uses to create an exaggerated effect of the number of deaths that the nurses have to deal with.
The poet's comparison to the nurses links to the theme of the inevitability of death. It shows that he is unable to cope with it, yet through the course of the poem he will have to try too. it shows that people can accept this inevitability.
Martin & Mathew
Verse 6 – Lines 31-38
Line 34: “Round swimming waves of the bell” is a metaphor, it gives an image of sound waves passing through the whiteness. Giving a sense of disorientation, as if we were now seeing from the patient’s eyes. “Swimming waves” is synaesthesia because the two words are fairly similar, in the sense that you swim in water and waves are related to water. It also sets a calm mood with the use of this reference. This calm mood is of the patient, not the visitor.
Line 35: The pun of “growing fainter” suggests the visitor is becoming fainter as he moves away, due to her poor eyesight, but it also suggests the poet may faint due to him feeling ill due to his sadness.
Line 37: “Books that will not be read” is a paradox. This puts emphasis on how the books will not be read. Books are made to be read but because of the patient’s state she will be unable to read them. He just felt that he had to bring her something. Here the poet is going through the visit as if she was well, although it is clear she is not. This shows a sense of futility in the poet’s actions.
Line 38: “Fruitless fruits” is an oxymoron. This continues the idea of the earlier paradox. It shows that she is not actually able to eat the fruit that he has brought due to her state, and thus the gift is useless. If she was able to eat it, it would not taste or smell the same as it would before she was ill. This emphasises the futility of the gift.
The alliteration of “f” here emphasises how uneventful and unsatisfying the “fruitless fruits” would be, the “f” sound imitates her being too tired and unwell to eat.
Laura, Megan and Margaret
Verse 5 describes the actual visit itself.
Caesura "Ward 7." line 19, the full stop provides the poet to pause to prepare himself for the visit. The full stop indicates his arrival and it puts the reader in the poet’s position as the reader stops too. The poet writes the number "7" as a numeral as it appears on the door, helping the reader to see what the poet does.
Metaphor - "She lies in a white cave of forgetfulness" line 20.
a) The bed, screened off by a white curtain, in the centre of which she lies, this is compared to a cave; it is a "cave of forgetfulness" because she is barely conscious.
b) The metaphor is appropriate as she is cut off from the rest of the ward as effectively as if she were in a cave in the side of a cliff. The fact that the curtains are well above the level or her head adds to the cave impression. As she is in a coma, she cannot communicate with the poet, nor he with her.
c)The poet is immediately aware that the patient is inaccessible to him, and he to her. "White" adds sight to the feeling of inaccessibility, as if the poet is seeing her through a white haze or snowstorm, a white-out or "white noise" which impedes cultures in the past where old people when they became a burden were in caves in the hillside.
"A withered hand trembles on its stalk" line 22 Here the patient resembles a dying flower. This is appropriate because they are both delicate, they are both pale and wasting away. There may be traces off her former beauty but it is faded. The image suggests that the poet is looking at this woman with love but despite the ravages of the illness he still sees some of her former beauty.
“Into an arm wasted of colour a glass fang is fixed, not guzzling but giving” – lines 24/25
- fangs of a vampire being compared to a needle of a drip, both pierce the skin.
- He knows that this needle is helping her but it is probably causing her pain and discomfort. Knows that medicine can’t help her as she is futile.
- alliteration of the letter “f”, threatening sound
- alliteration of the letter “g” – creates a repulsing image
situation - the poem shows the narrator visiting a dying relative in hospital. It takes us through the journey from the entrance of the hospital to the visit in the ward itself.
theme - how death is unavoidable
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