Hotel Room (Austin)

Question 1

Setting in hotel room

Answer 1

The change from morning seeing the buildings and the materialistic society to midnight when violence emerges ‘uncivilised darkness’/ ‘blood glazed on sidewalks’

Question 2

8 mark Q

Answer 2

Commonality
Comment on what the poem you have access to has to do with the question being asked (1)
Comment on one other poem that has to do with the topic being asked (1)

Extract
Quote and comment relating to theme (2)

Elsewhere
Quote and comment from other poem (2)
Quote and comment from other poem (2)

Question 3

Loss

Answer 3

Loss of humanity ‘blood glazed on sidewalks’
‘the broken bones, the harsh screaming’

Question 4

People/places

Answer 4

New York 1960s
Cowboy times
Violence

‘Empire state building ‘
‘Canyons and gulches’

Question 5

Suffering

Answer 5

Police cars and ambulances racing to the broken bones,

Cold water flats

Question 6

Isolation

Answer 6

Empire state building Vs cold water flats

Question 7

Commentary of humans

Answer 7

Violence is always around, past, present, rich, poor