Brooklyn Cop (Stanzas Three and Four) - Norman MacCaig
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- brooklyn cop - stanzas three and four
- 'gorilla with a nightstick'
- extended metaphor of gorilla
- describing the cop as an animal with a weapon
- nightstick suggests more basic violence
- instead of getting shot once, get hit multiple times to do harm
- 'who would be him, gorilla with a nightstick, whose home is a place he might, this time, never get back to?
- rhetorical question
- makes the reader feel sympathy for the cop because he might not make it back home
- 'who would be who have to be his victims?'
- makes the reader change their thoughts on whether they should sympathise with the cop
- he's there to help people and not harm them
- rhetorical question
- word choice of 'victims' is there to make us think whether the cop is actually helping people or if he's actually harming them
- 'gorilla with a nightstick'
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