Explain how the poet creates an impression of what life is like in that place. Norman MacCaig’s poem‚ ‘Hotel Room‚ 12th Floor’‚ presents a view from a high window in a hotel in the largest city in the most powerful nation in the world. It is morning and the poet is looking out over the city. As night falls the poet begins to feel uneasy. Down below on the streets chaos and violence seem to take over. From his hotel room the poet wonders if violence is a basic part of humanity which we cannot shut
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Hotel Room‚ 12 Floor (1968) th Norman MacCaig Hotel Room‚ 12th Floor by Norman MacCaig This morning I watched from here a helicopter skirting like a damaged insect the Empire State building‚ that jumbo size dentist’s drill‚ and landing on the roof of the PanAm skyscraper. But now Midnight has come in from foreign places. Its uncivilised darkness is shot at by a million lit windows‚ all ups and acrosses. But midnight is not so easily defeated. I lie in bed‚ between a radio and a television
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Stanza 1 The beginning of the poem creates a sense of immediacy in the poem: This morning I watched from here By stating the time at the beginning he suggests how deeply he was affected by his experience as he wants to write about it right away. This shows how important the themes and ideas of the poem were to him. This sense of immediacy is emphasized later in the stanza when he writes ‘But now Midnight has come in . . .’ He is writing the poem as he experiences the
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Memorial by Norman MacCaig This poem is an elegy‚ a poem that is a lament for the dead‚ for a beloved person in Maccaig’s life‚ probably his sister Frances. It is a sad and beautiful poem about how her death pervades every aspect of his life. He makes it clear that her death is not for him an event that has its place in the past. Instead the process of her dying stays with him constantly- In the opening of the poem he states‚’ Everywhere she dies’ and in the final stanza‚ ‘she can’t stop dying’
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“Sparrow” by Norman MacCaig has a strong social issue of the class system and how the classes differ. MacCaig talks about the issue of the class system in relation to survival of to fittest. The poem itself talks about birds like sparrows and other birds in general‚ which are metaphors for people. Word choice‚ sentence structure and enjambment were strong in improving my understanding of the social issue of the class system. MacCaig uses word choice to describe the sparrow and other birds in
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Scottish poet Norman MacCaig. In the poem‚ MacCaig shows the central idea is loss and death. This central idea is achieved through the use of various techniques such as imagery‚ structure and narrative stance. The poem is about a visit MacCain makes to a dying relative in a hospital. Throughout the poem‚ MacCaig gives his thoughts and feeling to how he fails to cope with the situation. The poet also uses enjambment‚ metaphor and imagery at the beginning of the poem when MacCaig hints at the central
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Brooklyn Cop “Brooklyn Cop” written by Scottish poet Norman McCaig‚ is a poem that conveys a police officer in Brooklyn to be an aggressive yet affectionate man. Throughout the poem McCaig uses word choice and imagery techniques to express the dual sided nature of the cop. We see that the way he behaves on the streets of Brooklyn contrasts with how he is at home with his wife. The dual sided nature of the cop is shown through the physical description that McCaig uses to convey him. McCaig does
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Basking Shark : commentary By : Maaria Chehab Basking shark by Norman MacCaig is a free verse poem‚ that might have been written to question the ‘evil’ natures of humans‚ using sharks metaphorical renaissance for the idea. The narrator introduces this un-intuitive question in line 13‚ quite bluntly by saying “ So who is the monster? The thought made me grow pale….” MacCaig uses figurative language‚ syntax‚ and diction to create this artwork. The poem starts off in a body of water‚ with the narrator
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company‚ Harvey Norman expending to South Africa‚ Cape Town. This report is meditated to Harvey Norman Senior Management Team in Australia. The main purpose of this report is to investigate how the South African business environment is before the company operates. Harvey Norman Holdings ltd‚ a franchise retail of electrical and furniture that operate not only Australia but also Europe and Asia .Harvey Norman first established in 1982 and goes public in 1987. In 1997 Harvey Norman opens their first
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The period 11th -12th centuries saw the Normans spread out hither and thither to many parts of the world‚ different lands and countries. Not like the conquest of England or other invasions‚ the Normans’ conquest of southern Italy and Sicily shows more ‘Norman Achievements’ compared with other conquests that time. Southern Italy and Sicily were divided land for complex political and religious groups. However‚ under the rule of Normans‚ the cultural syncretic of Southern Italy and Sicily was never
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