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This document is intended to provide a starting point for teachers in their thinking and planning by giving an introductory overview of how the text can be considered through the lens of this genre. We haven’t covered every element of this genre. Instead we hope this guide will provide a springboard to help you plan, and to get you and your students thinking about the text in more detail.  \nOverview  \nThis selection of Harrison’s poetry draws attention to the political and social protest writing elements of power, heritage, education, disenfranchisement, rebellion and violence. The poems are culturally and time specific, and have as their subject working class life in the north of England (though in National Trust Harrison does speak out for the disenfranchised in Cornwall) . The main focus is on male workers – or men who are unemployed-in the latter half of the twentieth century, though their stories are sharpened by references to theplights of workers or the abused in earlier historical periods (for example, Patience Kershaw, the child who was employed as a hurrier in a nineteenth century coal mine and who suffered appalling conditions) . Harrison speaks with a variety of voices, many of them conflicting, but underpinning them all is an anger against those who are privileged and a sympathy (though not unqualified) for those who are powerless. Many of Harrison’s poems explore ideas of power, reflecting on those in society who ‘ have’ and those who ‘have not’. He sees society as essentially divided and in his poetry he explores divisions caused by social class, status, employment and education.  \nIt is easy to read Harrison’s poetry as autobiographical since he writes explicitly about personal experiences and about his family, but readers must always guard against simply asserting the narrators are Harrison. Although all the narrators are passionate in their dissent, the voices are complex and there is a selfconsciousness about the way that Harrison constructs himself in his poetry. Underpinning the poems is the writer’s discomfort with his own position as political writer, the irony that as a scholar and bard, he has removed himself from his working class roots and therefore, in a sense, loses the right to speak for that social class. In ‘Working’ he confronts this issue directly by suggesting  \nthat his sonnet, written to draw attention to the plight of Patience Kershaw, is “a load of crap” and ought to be dumped “on a slagheap”; her story is “lost in this sonnet for the bourgeoisie”. There is irony too in who exactly Harrison is addressing. In writing the kind of rebellious poetry that he does, he wants to liberate poetry, remove it from its natural academic environment, yet the irony is that it is mostly enjoyed by the academic classes and studied in schools and universities. The irony is most explicitly foregrounded in v. where the confrontation with the imaginary “skin” in the cemetery becomes an interior duologue about the value of the narrator’s work. The poet-narrator argues that he only writes to give a voice to the skinhead. However although he tries to elevate the skin by finding meaning in his graffiti, the skinhead contemptuously tells him not to bother, not to waste his breath. In writing from a position of privilege, Harrison is well aware that he himself is on the other side of the divisions he explores. He is not part of the disenfranchised but rather he is separated from them, even from his own parents, by his education and the writing he does.  \nUnlike Blake whose political and social protest writing is totally serious, Harrison uses humour and theatricality to make serious political points. In some ways his writing is more akin to the satire of Swift. Humour, ","cbCaiiyFinyzm7oQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiyFinyzm7oQ","pdf",167625,"English","# Overview\n## Power and the abuse of power\n## Disenfranchisement","[{\"question\":\"What political and social protest writing elements are emphasized in Harrison’s Selected Poems?\",\"answer\":\"The resource highlights power, heritage, education, disenfranchisement, rebellion and violence. 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