Continuous (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Tony Harrison
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Sonnet
- Genres: Poetry, Sonnet
- Subjects: Parents and children, 1940’s, England or English people, Fathers, Funeral rites or ceremonies, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Theaters, Rings
The Poem
Tony Harrison calls this poem and the others in this collection “sonnets” although they are not, strictly speaking, since they consist of sixteen rather than fourteen lines of rhyming iambic pentameter. They are sometimes metrically uneven, quite deliberately, to enhance their informality and the themes of the individual poems. The title refers to a major subject of the book: the relationship of a son to his parents before and after their deaths. The poem, written in the first person, takes as its beginning a memory of the father and son enjoying a visit to an...
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