Hotel Room, 12th Floor (Stanza Two) - Norman MacCaig
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- hotel room, 12th floor - stanza two
- 'but midnight is not so easily defeated'
- 'but' is used as a turning point
- 'easily defeated' is used to continue the battle language
- 'between a radio and a television set'
- implies that we are always surrounded by technology
- the technology could be used to drown out the sound of violence from outside the hotel room
- 'wildest of warwhoops continually ululating'
- alliteration in 'wildest' and 'warwhoops'
- alliteration in 'continually ululating'
- 'wildest' has connotations of uncivilised behaviour
- 'warwhoops' are Native American war cries
- 'ululating' is onomatopoeia
- mimics the ambulance and police sirens
- 'through the glittering canyons and gulches'
- canyons may be glittering but they're still canyons
- 'broken bones, the harsh screaming from coldwater flats, the blood glazed on sidewalks'
- uses synecdoche
- people are reduced to their body parts
- implies the place of humans in society is lost
- uses synecdoche
- 'coldwater flats'
- even though society is advancing with technology, the advances are leaving people behind
- 'blood glazed on sidewalks'
- implies that there is so much blood that it can't get cleaned up
- it is fresh blood because it is 'glazed'
- 'but midnight is not so easily defeated'
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