Brooklyn Cop

Brooklyn compass Analysis and Evaluation Worksheet Stanza whiz 1. Look at wrinkles 1 4. Do you guess that this is a stereotypical hear of a policeman? Choose dickens quotes, and explain why they make you encounter this way. (3) Stereotypical built ilk a gorilla = he is big and substantial / .. but less timid = dauntless Non-stereotypical two hieroglyphs in his face that incriminate squabble = he is looking for trouble (1 sexual conquest for all(prenominal) quote and coupled opinion) 2. Quote the line that shows that the divide betwixt civilization and violence is only eer paper- sheer. (1) he walks the sidewalk and the thin wander every target violence (1 mark) 1. What technique is this? 1) allegory (1 mark) 3. Consider what you learn slightly the snarf at home. Quote a line that shows the difference between his personality at work, and that at home. Explain your answer fully, including how you go through about the character. (3) Whilst at work, he is unsh rinking and savage. But he loves his wife and is afeard(predicate) that he might be killed in the line of duty (1 mark) .. when he state see you babe to his wife, he hoped it, he truly hoped it (1 mark). This makes us find out piteous for him beca give his love for his wife means he is vulnerable. (1 mark) 4. The poet changes from saying the knock off is like a gorilla to creation a gorilla.Explain fully how the techniques clear changed, and why you look the poet does this. (2) The poet uses a simile at the come out of the poem, but towards the end of stanza one he changes the comparison to being a metaphor (1 mark). This strengthens the image and emphasises the savage, bestial and primitive nature of the nab. (1 mark) Stanza Two 1. Think about the wander names in the poem what openhearted of bea is he policing? (2) The poet mentions Phoebes Whamburger and Louies Place these sound like they might be mafia diners or places where gangsters might hang out. (2 marks for some(prenominal) suitable ideas with evidence) 2.Explain how the word plunge is effective. embroil comment on connotation and reference point of the word as well as the structure. (3) Plunge means to fall rapidly (1 mark). It has connotations of falling, uncontrollably, by chance from a great eyeshade into something terrible (1 mark). . The poem highlights the word so that the physical structure of the poem most mirrors the idea of falling through the thin tissue into violence. (1 mark). 3. How does stanza two remind us of the themes of the poem? (1) Stanza two reiterates the theme of violence, and shows how rapidly the cop could be thrust from sentry go into chaos. 1 mark for anything describing how violence is everlastingly present in the cops world) Stanza Three 1. What do you notice about the structure of this stanza? (1) The whole stanza is written as a rhetorical question. (1 mark) 2. Explain the implication of gorilla with a nightstick (2) The cop is described as a gorilla, which has connotations of being primitive and savage. It is significant that he has elect a nightstick, because stereotypical police would have a gun. The Brooklyn Cop has a nightstick, mayhap because he enjoys being able to use it to ruddyly beat up criminals. 1 mark) The poet may also intend it to be a phallic symbol, to emphasise the masculinity of the cop. (1 mark) 3. Show how the poet tries to get us to realize with the cop (4) MacCaig tries to get us to feel sorry for the cop by reminding us that his home is a place he might, this time, never get put up to. This is perhaps the only place he is blessed and safe and so we sympathise with his weighty smell. (2 marks) The poet also asks who would be him, which makes the reader project how hard it would be to live the life the cop does. (2 marks) (1 mark for each quote,1 mark for each reasonable explanation)Stanza Four 1. Who is the poet referring to as victims, and why do you think they are referred to as such? (2) The poet refers to criminals who are caught by the cop as victims (1 mark), perhaps because the cop serves his own kind of violent justice. (1 mark) general 1. Why do you think the Brooklyn Cop remains anonymous? (1) I think that not knowing his name emphasises how spaced he is from society, and makes the readers sympathise more with him (1 mark) 2. How sure-fire do you think this poem is in conveying a complex deliver of the cop? (4) MacCaig is successful because he presents us with a realistic character.On one hand, he is almost a comic give superhero he is built like a gorilla huge and strong, as he bravely walks the sidewalks and the thin tissue over violence to keep us safe. On the other hand, he has a vicious, violent streak. He likes brutalising people, and the line two hieroglyphs in his face that mean trouble suggests he seeks out fights. Yet at the aforementioned(prenominal) time, he is tender with his wife, calling her making love and his fear that his home is a place he might, this time, never get back to tells us that he is vulnerable. (two marks each for suitable quote plus explanation)