Questions: New York Is a Subway Stop - 1969

1. What is the tone of the poem?

2. How is New York personified in the poem? What is the effect of this?

3. What does the imagery of "odd" lovers add to the poem?

4. What is the poetic voice saying about New York?

5. What do the last three lines of the poem suggest about New York? Is this different to the previous image that has been created in the poem?