Scottish Text Poetry Quotes Flashcards
Brooklyn Cop 1/8 - quote describing him first off
“Built like a gorilla”
Brooklyn cop 2/8 - quote comparing him to meat
“Steak-coloured”
Brooklyn cop 3/8 - quote describing the separation of violence and civilisation
“The thin tissue over violence”
Brooklyn cop 4/8 - quote showing his human qualities
“See you, have”
Brooklyn cop 5/8 - quote describing his nature as a person
“He is a gorilla”
Brooklyn cop 6/8 - quote about the separation between violence and civilisation will do
“Should the tissue tear”
Brooklyn cop 7/8 - quote about what he may be setting out to do on his patrols
“And who would be who have to be his victims” lack of punctuation speeds it up
Brooklyn cop 8/8 - quote creating sympathy for him when he leaves his wife and home
“He hopes it, he truly hoped it.” Repetition.
Hotel Room 1/7 - quote about how the helicopter is behaving
“a helicopter skirting like a damaged insect”
Hotel Room 2/7 - quote about what the empire state building looks like
“jumbo sized dentist’s drill”
Hotel Room 3/7 - quote about what MacCaig did to try and drown out the violence outside
“between a radio and television set”
Hotel Room 4/7 - quote about what the violence sounds like
“wildest of warwhoops”
Hotel Room 5/7 - quote about what the blood has done
“glazed”
Hotel Room 6/7 - quote about what the empire state building is faking
“and no stockades can keep the midnight out”
Hotel Room 7/7 - quote about what the streets of New York look like
“canyons and gulches”
Assisi 1/8 - quote about the dwarf’s hands
“hands on backwards”
Assisi 2/8 - quote about how the dwarf was sitting
“slumped like a half-filled sack”
Assisi 3/8 - quote about what the dwarf’s legs look like
“twisted”
Assisi 4/8 - quote about MacCaig’s mocking tone of priest
“how clever”
Assisi 5/8 - quote about the sound the tourists were making
“clucking”
Assisi 6/8 - quote about the movement of the tourists
“fluttering”
Assisi 7/8 - quote about using metaphor about the appearance of the dwarf
“ruined temple”
Assisi 8/8 - quote about the details of the dwarf to shock the reader
“whose eyes wept pus, whose back was higher than his head, whose lopsided mouth”
Aunt Julia 1/6 - quote showing how MacCaig is remembering her
“very loud and very fast”
