Analyses

• skirting has connotations of fluttering about and comparing the helicopter to a ‘damaged insect’ invokes the image of something flying in circles annoying those around
• ‘jumbo sized dentists drill’ the metaphor compares the empire state building to a dentists drill. Just as a dentists drill is associated with pain, so too maccaig is critical of the empire state. by comparing it to something with connotations of fear and pain he creates a commentary on capitalism and those who have been hurt or left behind by it.