brooklyn cop Flashcards
Brooklyn Cop
Nameless, presented as a role in urban society represents the occupation. It applies to all cops
Built
Simile - formidable, imposing, powerful
Gorilla
Savage, primitive, uncivilized
But less timid
Numerous addition - he is more animal than man
Hieroglyphics
Metaphor
- scars
- eyes
- carved with no emotion
Thin tissue over violence.
Thin - order is maintained but it doesn’t take long for it to suddenly change
Violence - his responsibility to deal with it
Metaphor. Life on the streets can easily breakdown into violence. Fragile easily torn like a tissue
Caesura focuses attention on violence
‘See you babe’
Throw away, cliched dialogue. But the cop truly means it
He hoped it, he truly hoped it
Repetition emphasises his desperation to come home
He is a gorilla
Imagery strengthened to a metaphor
‘Hiya, honey’
Throw away cliched dialogue. But the cop truly means it
Tissue tear
Alliteration reflects the moment violence erupts
Plunge
Throws himself into it without a care for his safety
Into
Has gone into another world
What clubbings, what
Repetition emphasises how violence is everywhere
Onamatopoeic words reflect violence
2nd stanza
Long sentence reflects the long nights and how violence is everywhere
