hotel room, 12th floor

Question 1

, 12th floor

Answer 1

High up over the city reflecting

Question 2

A helicopter skirting like a damaged insect

Answer 2

Helicopter = modern technology

Simile erratic , imperfect , movements

Alien, different, suspicious, suggest has mistrust of modern world

Question 3

Empire State Building

Answer 3

Modern technology

Symbol of the modern world. Power of the USA. Tallest building in the world at that time

Question 4

Jumbo size dentists drill

Answer 4

Metaphor it’s pointless, threatening, an eyesore represents ugliness suggest his dislike and distrust of modern technology

Question 5

But now midnight

Answer 5

Present tense

Tone change, more sinister

Connotations of darkness and fear

Question 6

Foreign

Answer 6

Unknown doesn’t fit in with modern usa

Question 7

Uncivilized darkness

Answer 7

Personification

As if it has a mind of it’s own

Savage, chaotic, violent side of humanity

Question 8

Is shot at by a million lit windows

Answer 8

Shot at - war, an attack between civilised and uncivilized

Light, electricity, modern

Question 9

But midnight is not

so easily defeated

Answer 9

But - tone shift, darker more cynical

Evil is hard to contain

Question 10

A radio and a television set

Answer 10

Surrounded by technology these are symbols of modernity. However these cannot protect him

Question 11

Wildest of war whoops continually ululating

Answer 11

Alliteration reflects the sounds of the city

Sirens, city sounds, shots, screams. Introduces ideas of wildest, Native American war cry. Coty at night is violent and chaotic

Question 12

Glittering canyons and gulches

Answer 12

Streets buildings - intended metaphor for the Wild West

Question 13

Police cars and ambulances racing

Answer 13

Driving into the violence, life’s at risk

Question 14

Broken bones, the harsh screaming

Answer 14

Alliteration reflects the impact

People being reduced to body parts

Connotations of fear, pain and desperation

Question 15

Last four lines of stanza 4

Answer 15

List of violence

Question 16

Cold water flats

Answer 16

No hot water. Symbolizes poverty and primitive conditions

Question 17

Glazed

Answer 17

As if it’s a permanent feature . violence is an everyday fact.

Question 18

Last stanza

Answer 18

Two negative sentences blunt and pessimistic

Question 19

Frontier

Answer 19

Boundary between civilized and uncivilized, wild west terminology . violence is part of human nature

Question 20

No stockades

Answer 20

Barrier in wild west protect from Danger

Question 21

Midnight

Answer 21

Evil, violent, savage primitive Instinct present in all of us and can’t be escaped