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Essay / Analysis of Tony Harrison's V by Tony Harrison
with its use of other languages and references to the poet Rimbaud (Harrison, ), the play Hamlet () and the composer Herman Darewski (). Although the use of the term “high culture” is not as dense as in “Them and [Uz],” it remains problematic. This forces the reader to wonder if Harrison will ever be able to truly represent the working-class background from which he comes because he has been “internally colonized” by high culture (Liang, 108). Harrison is unable to effectively communicate the voice of the marginalized because he is part of the dominant discourse and ideology of intellectual culture. Additionally, his act of representing a working class experience begins to make it seem like the poet is acting in a colonialist manner. The poet tells the working class figure that the only reason he is writing this poem is to give "a higher meaning to your writing": ...in which the poet cultivated with the notion of divine inspiration believes that a poet must assume the mission of dispersing Enlightenment over humanity “to give the highest meaning to the scribbles” and to “give them an audience”. (Liang,