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Annotations to Geoffrey Hill's 'Speech! Speech!' by Geoffrey Hill, (annotated by ,Ann Hassan,) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Geoffrey Hills Spe ech! Speech! (2000) encapsulates two thousand years worth of utterances in a symbolic act of remembrance and expression of despair for the current age, in which we find our minds and ears fouled by degraded public speechby media hype, insipid sermons, hollow political rhetoric, and the ritual misuse of words. Through 120 densely allusive stanzasAs many as the days that were of SODOMthe poem wrestles this condition from within, fighting fire with fire in an alchemical symbolic labour that transmutes the dross of corrupt and clichd idiom into a dynamic logopoeia which proves true Hills persistent genuinely difficult art is truly democratic. Such is the weird, ambivalently hostile position of poetry in the present world and thus the space of our real connection to Whatever strange relationship we have with the poem, it is not one of enjoyment. It is more like being brushed past, or aside, by an alien being (Hill). Befriending this estrangement, embracing it as a more amicable brushing-up-against, Hassans Annotations is a thorough and patient explication of Speech! Speech! that both clarifies and deepens the poems difficulties, illuminating its polyphonic language an

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Author

Geoffrey Hill, (annotated by ,Ann Hassan,)

Publisher

Punctum Books;Glossator Special Editions

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781468129847

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Poetry

Rating

5 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14