Visiting hour

Question 1

Isolation

Answer 1

• “white cave of forgetfulness”
• “the distance of pain that neither she nor I can cross”
• “black figure in her white cave”

Question 2

Setting

Answer 2

• “the hospital smell”
• “combs my nostrils”
• “as they go bobbing along”
• “green and yellow corridors”

Question 3

Death

Answer 3

• “corpse”
• “vanishes heavenward”
• “a withered hand trembles on its stalk”
• “ into an arm wasted of colour a glass fang is fixed, not guzzling but giving”
• “ books that will not be read and fruitless fruits”

Question 4

Loss

Answer 4

• “clumsily rises in the round waves of a bell”
• “growing fainter”
• “ books that will not be read and fruitless fruits”
• “ward 7. She lies”