Hotel Room, 12th Floor (Stanza One) - Norman MacCaig
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- hotel room, 12th floor - stanza one
- 'this morning, I watched from here'
- gives us a time, morning
- gives us a place, the hotel room
- 'helicopter skirting like a damaged insect'
- word choice of 'damaged' tells us that the helicopter is a bad copy of nature
- uses a simile
- compares the helicopter to a damaged insect
- 'insect' suggests that the helicopter is annoying, tiny among all the building and just unnessecary
- 'jumbo sized dentist's drill'
- 'dentist's drill' has connotations of pain and suffering
- could have deeper meaning of how the technological advance of society has left the people suffering behind
- could also imply that the ESB is drilling through the sky
- comedic image - who needs a drill that size?
- criticism of the American idea of bigger is better
- 'dentist's drill' has connotations of pain and suffering
- 'but now midnight has come in from foreign places. Its uncivilised darkness'
- 'midnight' is used as a metaphor for darkness and the unknown
- 'foreign places' implies that anything that isn't the American norms is bad and doesn't seem inline with what is seemed as civilised
- 'shot at by a million lit windows'
- is a dig at the American gun laws
- suggests a battle between the light and dark
- creates an image of the city buildings fighting the darkness
- 'this morning, I watched from here'
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