Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Head Injury
- Imagery
- Pounding
- extreme headache - onomatopea-metaphor
- hitting hard - forcefully - stabbing impact
- white cliffs of my skull
- Skull is being compared to cliffs-relentless
- dead bird in a watertank
- aimlessly floating , no control over direction-simile
- image is repellent , disgusting , horror
- Put a bullet between the birds
- Strong , Powerful metaphor
- Looking for a merciful quick and painless death, the patient seems to be asking for respect and mercy
- this metaphor links to previous message where he has likened the patients eyes to birds hence here there is a direct appeal to kill the patent by
shooting him
- Word Choice
- gurgle
- a noise a baby would make, in contrast with adult patient, shows how incapable the patient is
- Black
- connotations with dark , depression and negetive
- Depression is all there is left, going back in a coma
- Mottled
- blurred , indistinct
- Agony
- Severe intense pain
- Darkness
- connotations of blackness and depression
- screams drowned
- submerged , suffocated
- on inside it is as if it were a storm raging , but on the outside all is silent and calm
, Roger Mcgough recreates patients feelings of entrapment , despair and frustration
- Glimmer
- tiny , small chance
- I love you
- intimate expression of affection , simple , offering hope
- Squawk
- onomatopoeia , ugly harsh sound , frustration
- gurgle
- repetition , emphasises patients helplessness
- walk out
- patient left alone
- Sentance Structure
- I do not smile because I am happy
- opening of the poem contrasts with the patients outward appearance and inner thoughts
- Agony.
- Darkness.
- two one word sentances emphisises how he feels and what he sees
- Seeking some glimmer of recognition
- Some Sign of recovery.
- Repetition of 'some' suggests little likelihood that it will happen , shows despair
- mottled mainly 'black'
- repetition of black in previous stanza suggest that everyday is the same and it is depressing for the patient