2. Lesson Aims To analyse how structure and form are used to
convey meaning 3. Look at your poem How does Harrison use structure
to convey meaning? 4. How does Harrison use structure to
conveymeaning? 1.Identify how Harrison uses structure and form to
suggest the oppression of the proletariat 2. Explain the and form,
commenting on aspects of rhyme and meter. 3. Evaluate the structure
and form from a Marxist perspective using key terminology 5.
Bottomless pits. Theres one in Castleton,and stout upholders of our
law and orderone day thought its depth worth wagering onand
borrowed a convict hush-hush from his warderand winched him down;
and back, flayed, grey, mad, dumb.Not even a good flogging made him
holler!O gentlemen, a better way to plumbthe depths of Britains
dangling a scholar,say, here at the booming shaft at Towanroath,now
National Trust, a place where they got tin,those gentlemen who
silenced the mens oathand killed the language that they swore it
in.The dumb go down in history and disappearand not one gentlemans
been brough to book:Mes den hep tavas a-gollas y dyr(Cornish-)the
tongueless man gets his land took. 6. Tony Harrison:(I have) a
passion for language thatcommunicates directly and immediately.I
prefer the idea of men speaking to mento a man speaking to God, or
everworse to Oxfords anointed. 7. School of Eloquence is a quoteThe
Making of the English Working Class is an influential and pivotal
work of English social history, written by E. P. Thompson, a
notable New Left historian; it was published in 1963.() It
concentrates on English artisan and working class society "in its
formative years 1780 to
1832."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Making_of_the_English_Working_
ClassDo your own research to find out more about this text and
possible influences on 8. The School of EloquenceIn The Making of
The Working Class, Thompsonexplores how language can to liberate as
well asimprison and suggests that language is anessential component
if there were to be anymovement for social change. By using
thequotation as a title, Harrison approves of this. Thebarriers and
constraints of Language are asignificant feature of many of the
poems in thisThe School Of Eloquence. They are often rootedin
Harrisions own personal experiences andthose of his parents. He
also writes about thecollective oppression of people through
languageand establishes himself as a voice for the working 9.
FormHarrison chooses sonnet form to write many of the poems in SOE.
However, he chooses the more unusual English sonnet form of 16
lines, used by the Victorian poet George Meredith. Harrison shoes
here that he understands form, but chooses to remove himself from
the established form of canonical figures in literary history. Here
then he shows his dexterity with langauge; he shows he is well
educated whilst simultaneously distancing himself from the literary
establishment.Theres quite a good quide here:
