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'Hotel Room 12th Floor' By Norman MacCaig
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- Submitted: 11/07/2002
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"Hotel Room 12th Floor" By Norman MacCaig
"Hotel Room 12th Floor" is a thought provoking poem by the 20th century poet Norman MacCaig. The poem is about a man who watches from his twelfth floor hotel room over the city of New York at midnight, taking notes of the surrounding incidents. As he is alone the loneliness takes advantage of him and makes him feel cautious of everything.
"A helicopter skirting like a damaged insect, the Empire State Building, that jumbo sized dentists drill." This simile is very effective as the characteristics are very similar. A helicopter is similar to a damaged insect as the helicopter was flying round and round in a way, which an insect may fly when injured. The buzzing an insect makes is also similar to the sound of helicopter propellers. The size comparison between the building and the helicopter may seem like the size comparison to an insect and a human. The empire state building may be compared to a dentists drill because of its descending shape, and also because of the aerial on the top, which may represent a needle. These form an effective introduction to the main concern of
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