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After Visiting Hours Poem Analysis

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Review of "After Visiting Hours" In the "After Visiting Hours", U.A.Fanthorpe expresses concern over the hospital 's lack of humane treatment of the patients. However, she doesn 't express the concern directly. In my review, I will use specific examples of techniques and expressions from the poem to show how she presents this idea. U.A.Fanthorpe used to work in hospital. So she knows well what hospital look like. Her first book, Side Effect, is based on her work experiences in hospital. This poem is written by first-person narration. "We" are the patients and "they" are the visitors. In the first sentence, "Like gulls they are still calling - ", the author compares the visitors to gulls. Gulls symbolizes peace and health. Here, it means that the visitors send their best wishes of health to the patients before they leave. Connecting the first and second stanza, the author writes, "Their world has received them, As our world confirms us." Inside and outside the hospital, there are two worlds. The hospital is like a barrier, separating the visitors and the patients. The patients can …show more content…

In the hospitals, doctors and nurses are careless and irresponsible. They don 't take good care of the patients. The patients are painful. Their happiest time is with their families and friends. But after visiting hours, they left. The patients can only feel lonely. Through the poem, we can 't see U.A.Fanthorpe 's concern on the surface. It 's like her diary in hospital. She describes the normal thing that happens in hospital every day. The patients ' relatives visit them and leave. The doctors and nurses come to do their jobs. After these, the patients are alone. They are waiting to sleep. They are waiting to die. However, U.A.Fanthorpe uses similes, metaphors, symbolism and irony in the poem. Many images have further meanings. She intend to use first-person narration so we can feel the patients ' solidarity as if we were them. It 's the reason why this

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