Hotel Room, 12th Floor

Question 1

This morning

Answer 1

Sense of time
Light and hopeful

Question 2

I watched

Answer 2

Passive
Not taking part in what he sees

Question 3

A helicopter

Answer 3

Symbol of society’s technology

Question 4

Skirting

Answer 4

Going round in circles
On edge of city - not part of it

Question 5

Like a damaged insect

Answer 5

Annoying and broken
Unpleasant comparison

Question 6

The empire state building

Answer 6

New Yorkshire tallest building
Ostentatious
Symbol of wealth and power

Question 7

Jumbo sized dentists drill

Answer 7

Connotations of fear and pain

Question 8

On the roof of

Answer 8

Emphasis of America
Reality on ground ignored

Question 9

Pan am skyscraper

Answer 9

Americans airline connection to rest of world

Question 10

But

Answer 10

Turning point of poem

Question 11

Midnight

Answer 11

Darkness is evil

Question 12

Come in

Answer 12

Uninvited
Just turned up as violence does

Question 13

Foreign places
Uncivilised

Answer 13

Unfamiliar
Strange

Question 14

Darkness

Answer 14

What can’t be seen is feared

Question 15

Shot

Answer 15

Connotations of crime and violence

Question 16

Million

Answer 16

Strength in numbers

Question 17

Lit windows

Answer 17

Contrast to darkness
Shows good in evil

Question 18

Up and acrosses

Answer 18

Metaphor - window frames in form of cross

Question 19

But midnight

Answer 19

Shows that light(good) is losing to darkness (evil)

Question 20

Not

Answer 20

Emphasises negativity

Question 21

So easily defeated

Answer 21

Struggle is futile
Darkness will happen

Question 22

I lie in bed

Answer 22

Passive / struggling to sleep

Question 23

A radio and television set

Answer 23

Symbols of technology
Using them to distract from violence

Question 24

Hear

Answer 24

Change in focus from sight to hearing

Question 25

Wildest of warwhoops

Answer 25

Symbolism of wild west

Question 26

Glittering

Answer 26

The light shining Suggests wealth and beauty

Question 27

Canyons and gulches

Answer 27

Comparing skyscrapers to landscape of wild west

Question 28

Police cars and ambulances

Answer 28

Hints at emergency

Question 29

Racing

Answer 29

Shows speed of travel Urgency of task

Question 30

The broken bones

Answer 30

Bones represent the people Not whole people, just violence against them being shown

Question 31

Harsh screaming

Answer 31

Harsh suggests fear or panic Screaming intensely

Question 32

Cold water flats

Answer 32

Poverty - below the glittering skyscrapers

Question 33

Blood glazed

Answer 33

Copious amounts of blood Result of violence

Question 34

Frontier

Answer 34

Front lines of conflict Lawless and violent

Question 35

Somewhere else

Answer 35

Can't be avoided Never escape evil

Question 36

No stockade can keep the midnight out

Answer 36

End on a pessimistic note Resistance is futile