Across
- 2. represents death
- 6. shows admiration towards nurses
- 8. minor sentence establishing setting
- 10. repeated phrase in stanza 3
- 11. woman’s eyes are described as
- 13. drives a wedge between woman and speaker
- 17. description of bells showing woman’s ill health
- 18. how does the woman greet death
Down
- 1. what do nurses carry
- 3. colours of hospital corridors
- 4. effortlessness of nurses doing their job
- 5. oxymoron describing speakers frustration at death
- 7. destination of corpse
- 9. vampire metaphor
- 12. describes draining nature of hospital care
- 14. facial appearance representing nurses emotional strength
- 15. imagery describing effect of hospital smell on speaker
- 16. metaphor for woman’s arm in relation to her health