“Fanthorpe’s Poetry Stimulates The Reader To See People And Things In A New Light”
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In my essay I will refer to Patients, Patience Strong, Sisyphus, Canal:1977, BC;AD, The Contributor’s and The Sheepdog.
Patients is a very disturbing poem in that it challenges the way we usually see the hospital staff. We would prefer to view the hospital staff as professional, reliable, stable ....
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.... “There is no cure for us” she wants someone to show understanding.
It is very disquieting to see hospital staff presented in this light, as no doubt it is quite true that people who work in hospitals have the same traits that the rest of us have. But we prefer to see people who are in charge of our health, our recovery or our lives even, as better and stronger than that. The title “Patients” has two sets of values. It is referring to the general patients of the hospital and a ....
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