Edinburgh

Norman MacCaig was known to base his themes on the landscape and the natural world. In his poem November Nights he bases his theme on features of Edinburgh, the city where he was brought up in.
He states: “I gulp down winter raw.�
By analysing this, we realise that he is trying to say that the weather is very harsh or extremely cold. He also produces a feeling of great pain almost as though the frost or sn



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At the start of his poem he recognises the amount of pollution in Edinburgh by stating: “The brown air fumes at the shop windows.”

In this idea he acknowledges the fact that houses in Edinburgh were usually built upwards like flats, rather than sideways. This gives the reader a good idea of what Edinburgh looks like, because of the lack of space for houses.

He introduces another idea by

Some topics in this essay:
Earth, Ontology, Genre, Idea, Cold, Theme, Reader, Epistemology, Norman MacCaig, Edinburgh,

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