ENGLISH 2I06 Lecture : Tony Harrison's "V"

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The patter of the tour guide describing in a list the highlights that a visitor might imagine taking part of in london, a contradiction in language. It is at once choppy and technique of enjambment. Sense of a monologue, no interlocutor can interrupt. The speech interrupts itself through justaxposition, however (high/low culture references). Heteroglossia (bakhtin): many tongues language use as inherently social and antagonistic. Language populated by the intentions and flavors of life and class identities. Geography and history emerge too, as highly contested. Culture is a process, not a conclusion raymond williams. Linguistic indeterminacy, one signifier with many signifies but none that rise above the rest. Modeled on english graveyard poetry (thomas gray elegy in a country. Heroic quatrains (abab), iambic pentameter, commentary on national values through a meditation on rural ruins, reassuringly christian and pastoral. Strike occurred after the coal board announces plans to close 20 coal mines.

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