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Tony Harrison - V
Summary: Examines the poem `V' by Tony Harrison. Describes how we see the two sides of Harrison's many social visions: he is appalled and sympathetic, learned and crude and contemporary and historical." Considers how this assessment helps the understanding of "V."
The poem `V' by Tony Harrison and `elegy written in a country church-yard' by Thomas Gray are very alike. Both are set in a church-yard and comment on the subjects of mortality and conflict.
The two church-yards in question are not similar but still they contain the same materials for the poet. Harrison's church-yard is violent and chaotic whereas Gray's is quiet, peaceful and serene. Lines such as `All the air a solemn stillness holds' show the safe qualities that distinguishes Gray's church-yard from Harrison's ugly and unpleasant cemetery. `By spraying words on tombstones, pissed on beer' is an example of this disturbed atmosphere. Gray's elegy contains many references to nature such as `the swallow twittering from the straw-built shed.' Whereas the description of Harrison's churchyard contains next to no references to nature. There are mentions of pits and coal mines, `bone and rot'.
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