... an idea of the size of the city; the helicopter is so small and delicate in comparison. I think that the phrase "jumbo sized dentist's drill" doesn't work very well because the object being described doesn't share as many characteristics with the object being used to describe it. In the sixth line of the first stanza, "Hotel Room, 12th Floor" McCaig refers to the invasion of "midnight" from "foreign places". The phrase "midnight" stands for uncivilised ways and violence. The phrase "foreign places" stands for unknown feelings from deep inside us that we don't show during the daylight as we are trying to be civilised. The last stanza in "Hotel Room, 12th Floor" basically summarises the poet's attitude to the city. These lines state his feeling that no matter how civilised a place may seem or how technologically advanced it may be, there is no way that the primitive urges ...

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