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Person to Person: Relationship in the Poetry of Tony Harrison
Person to Person: Relationship in the Poetry of Tony Harrison

Author(s): Monica Marin
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: EDITURA ASE
Keywords: person; estrangement; personal pronoun; distancing; participation

Summary/Abstract: In this article we will demonstrate that the way in which the grammatical categories of person (first, second and third) are distributed across Harrison's poem "Long Distance II" emphasizes its basic theme of estrangement, of loss of person to person contact.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 102-109
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English