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Visiting Hour - Norman MacCaig The poem "Visiting hour" by Norman McCaig is about the poet visiting someone (possibly his mother) who is terminally ill in hospital. It is about human suffering and how helpless a person can feel when faced with a loved one dying, knowing that there is nothing you can really do to help. The poem has a tone that makes things seem strange and threatening. It is full of distortion and strange ways of saying things to show us that what the visitor is faced with is almost nightmarish and that they are extremely uncomfortable in this environment. In the first stanza it is not the visitor that is described as walking along the corridor, just his "nostrils", "bobbing along" with the "hospital smell" combing them in the "green and yellow corridors". It is almost as if the smells and the nostrils have a life of their own and the visitor...

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