Norman MacCaig
The two poems Brooklyn Cop and Hotel Room 12th Floor both written by Norman MacCaig are both giving two different views of New York. Hotel Room 12th Floor is looking down on the streets of New York. Brooklyn Cop is focusing on a typical American policeman. Both poems put across the same clear message that savagery lies beneath civilisation and the dividing line between is very thin. MacCaig gives us two different and very clear views of the city which is under threat.In verse one of Brooklyn Cop, MacCaig starts of with a simile, "Built like a gorilla, but less timid" the simile is used in a really effective way, it is comparing a cop with a gorilla, clearly sending across the message that the cop is big built, he also adds a bit of humour in this part of the poem - making out that the cop is tougher than a gorilla. MacCaig uses a metaphor saying that the gorilla is "thick fleshed" to again emphasise the cop as being big built or it could also mean that the cop is careless. At the start of this verse MacCaig makes out the cop has no feelings although it later says "..when he said 'see you, babe' to his wife" it is telling
The chances are that the violence will get you soon or later. you that the cop is married therefore must have feelings.
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Approximate Word count = 766
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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