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On Voice in Poetry‘The Multitudinous Tongue’

On Voice in Poetry: ‘The Multitudinous Tongue’ [At first, the citizens gave Caius Coriolanus their ‘voices’, but, pressed by the Tribunes of the people, they conclude that he had asked for their voices in scorn. One of the citizens describes his request thus:‘I would be consul,’ says he: ‘aged custom,But by your voices, will not so permit me;Your voices therefore.’ When we granted that,Here was ‘I thank you for your voices: thank you:Your most sweet voices: now you have left your voices,I have no further with you.’ Was not this mockery?(II.iii.154–59)1] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

On Voice in Poetry‘The Multitudinous Tongue’

Part of the Language, Discourse, Society Book Series
Smith, David Nowell
On Voice in Poetry — Nov 10, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
ISBN
978-1-349-45588-1
Pages
105 –136
DOI
10.1057/9781137308238_5
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Abstract

[At first, the citizens gave Caius Coriolanus their ‘voices’, but, pressed by the Tribunes of the people, they conclude that he had asked for their voices in scorn. One of the citizens describes his request thus:‘I would be consul,’ says he: ‘aged custom,But by your voices, will not so permit me;Your voices therefore.’ When we granted that,Here was ‘I thank you for your voices: thank you:Your most sweet voices: now you have left your voices,I have no further with you.’ Was not this mockery?(II.iii.154–59)1]

Published: Nov 10, 2015

Keywords: Sense Experience; Political Representation; Double Bind; Paradise Lost; Language Politics

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