Hotel Room quotations

Question	Answer
"A helicopter skirting like a damaged insect"	Comparing helicopter to an insect suggests that technology can't help the state of society as it is insignificant.
"Jumbo size dentists drill"	Connotes pain and suffering and suggests that the city is violence itself. Technology has gone too far and has become harmful.
"The wildest of warwhoops continually ululating through glittering canyons and gulches."	"W" alliteration attracts attention Suggests we are still as savage as the Native Americans. "Canyons and gulches" suggests attacking from high up and emphasises the threat of the streets. Using rural landscape to describe the urban city suggests the poet doesn't like the city.
"Police cars and ambulances"	Excludes the civilians, suggesting that they are used to the violence and have become immune to the damage.
"The broken bones, the harsh screaming... the blood."	Synecdoche- referring to parts of a broken body instead of a whole person. Suggests society has no sympathy as it is a regular occurrence.
"The blood glazed on the sidewalks."	Constant, can't be removed as it will always be replaced. A reminder of the inevitability of violence.
"The frontier is never somewhere else, and no stockades can keep the midnight out."	The poet feels we do not exist in a civilised society. The "frontier" between good and evil does not exist and society can never be protected from evil. "No" and "never" reinforce the idea that society can never be saved.

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	Created by Naomi Anderson over 9 years ago