Stanza 1. - a.)

Question 1

“Built like a gorilla

Answer 1

1.) - CLICHÉD SIMILE & STEREOTYPE:
   ➡ dehumanises cop + focuses on physical experience🙋
         ➜ - hulking 🏃
              - strong 💪
              - brutal 🤕
              - violent 💥

2.) - (dehumanizingly racist description ❗)

Question 2

“less timid”

Answer 2

1.) - HUMOROUS EFFECT & HYPERBOLIC:
   ➡ suggests:
        ↳ cop is possibly:
             ➜ - vicious 👿
                  - capable 👐
                  - aggressive 😡

Question 3

“thickfleshed, steakcoloured,”

Answer 3

1.) - EWC & METAPHOR:
➡ portraying cop’s face as:
➜ animalistic & rough 🦍

➡ his features are dark:
➜ physically & emotionally 🖤

➡ he is hardened to his role:
➜ dehumanized & reduced to “flesh” 🫀

Question 4

“two hieroglyphs”

Answer 4

1.) - SYMBOL & IMAGERY:
➡ can be read as:
↳ facial disfigurement 🤕

➡ can't read what he is thinking 
     ➜ mysterious & unpredictable 🔮

Question 5

“mean trouble”

Answer 5

1.) - ENJAMBMENT:
       ➡ ("mean")
           ➡ forces the word ("trouble")
                ↳ to the next line 📃
                       ➜ highlighting the word + potential for trouble to occur 😈

Question 6

“he walks the sidewalk and the thin tissue over violence.”

Answer 6

1.) - WORD CHOICE & METAPHOR:
➡ “sidewalk” (word choice)
↳ physical & hard
➜ like the cop 👮

➡ “tissue” (metaphor)
↳ delicate & easily broken
➜ contrasting 🔃

          - CONTRAST ✨
                  ➡ suggests:
                       ↳ civilised society (sidewalk)
                                  ➜ can easily tear apart (tissue)
                                             (DESCEND INTO VIOLENCE💥)

                   ➡ shows:
                        ↳ cop walks the line
                             ➜ between order 🚨 & violence 💥