1. Critical Appreciation of V by Tony Harrison
... try and reclaim poetry for the working class as it was considered to be a job that only the upper classes could enjoy the benefits of. This is one of the reasons why Harrison uses Byron and Wordsworth as the names of others in the graveyard, as he believes that these people who have the same name as poets, but do working class jobs, "building ... at first but once you understand everything then you can see that he is working class like everyone else and shouldn't be ostracized because of it. Harrison employs grimly realistic imagery in his description of the graveyard as the use of thes...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate