“Fanthorpe’s Poetry Stimulates The Reader To See People And Things In A New Light” Author: Jennie Turner 11/11/98 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 and infallible people. Here they are shown as lazy