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Hotel Room 12th Floor Flashcards

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12th Floor Themes

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Good against Evil
Violence 
Fear
Poverty
Materialism of the Modern World
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Stanza 1

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Attacks the materialistic attitude of society

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Stanza 2

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Tried to hide under the bed clothes from the noise of the violent streets

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Stanza 3

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No solution is put forward

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Skirting like a damaged insect

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Simile

Comparing the helicopter to a pin insect and its spiralling downfall links to the

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Cold water flats

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Poverty. Contrasts with progressive, materialistic society

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Empire State Building

PanAm Skyscraper

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Setting - NY
Symbolises progress / technology
Materialistic

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Wildest of Warwhoops

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Refers to the past
Indian war cry’s -> police sirens
Alliteration (intensifies)

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Frontier
Stockades
Wildest Warwhoops
Foreign Places

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Past and culture

Progression

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Glittering Canyon and Gulches

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Metaphor for the NY city skyline compared to the past landscape.

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