Tony Harrison

Question 1

What prize did he win in 2010?

Answer 1

European Prize for Literature

Question 2

What prize did he win in 2015?

Answer 2

The David Cohen Prize for Literture

Question 3

What are his major works?

Answer 3

Loinersm School of Eloquence, Continuous, V

Question 4

Mention dramas translated/ adapted by him

Answer 4

The Oresteia, Misanthrope

Question 5

What is his statement?

Answer 5

passion for language thatcommunicates directly and immediately, men speaking to men

Question 6

Where was he born?

Answer 6

Leeds

Question 7

What opposition characterize him?

Answer 7

son of a baker vs scholarship, the classics/ Oxbridge education, scholar, poeta doctus vs. reaching mass audiences, inherited non-standard language vs. RP

Question 8

What is his aim?

Answer 8

to speak for those who can’t express themselves, giving VOICE to the underpriviliged

Question 9

What are his topics?

Answer 9

Hiroshima, Alzheimer victims, Salman Rushdie’ fatwa, Irag war, Bosnian conflict

Question 10

What is he against?

Answer 10

an English reluctance to marry politics and poetry

Question 11

Mention three of his poems besied V

Answer 11

Heredity, Them & [uz], for Professors Richard Hoggart & Leon Cortez

Question 12

When was V written?

Answer 12

during miners’ strike 1984-84

Question 13

What is V’s context?

Answer 13

Thatcher and transnational corporations vs. miner/ trade unions, collapse of cities like Leeds

Question 14

Where does the notion of enemy within come from?

Answer 14

Enoch Powell’s speech in 1970

Question 15

What characterized the 1980s?

Answer 15

Thatcherite we vs. the culturally different who are dangerous to liberty

Question 16

What does gioing against the grain mean?

Answer 16

trocchees instead of iambs, alliteration, colloquial speech

Question 17

What is V?

Answer 17

a long poem, a drama

Question 18

What is V about?

Answer 18

persona visting his parents’ grave, personal reflection from a VANTAGE POINT, dialouge between skin and poet, summary his own epitaph

Question 19

What is V modelled on?

Answer 19

the mocking poetic tradition (T.S. Eliot)

Question 20

What does V mock?

Answer 20

funeral/pastoral elegy

Question 21

What does V evoke?

Answer 21

Thomas Grey’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Question 22

How is V different from the Grey poem?

Answer 22

contryside --> urban
peacful -->vandalised cemetry
monolouge --> dialouge?
elegiac mood --> aggression
losses, remembrance - passive --> active

Question 23

What is the underlying of V?

Answer 23

Mocking poetic tradition & questioning the significance and role of a poet

Question 24

What is language in V?

Answer 24

layers of society (cf. rhymes)

Question 25

What is the question of V?

Answer 25

can you represent the ones you come from/ separated by education and language?

Question 26

Themes and topics of V?

Answer 26

racism/ problem of multiculturalism/ PC or problem? today’s skin vs. poet’s father

Question 27

What does UNITED stand for in V?

Answer 27

changing signification: football club/ metaphor, negative conclusion

Question 28

What is the Epitaph about?

Answer 28

self-definition, self-articulation, memory

Question 29

What does V stand for?

Answer 29

versus, verses, victory sign, ‘four letter sign’, red tick at school,

Question 30

What characterizes V?

Answer 30

Heteroglossia, semantic ambivalence, personal memory, author/narrator/character (Fowles)