The opponent linguistic styles that Harrison uses to form the dialogue between skinhead and the poet give the reader a deeper view about their backgrounds and origins. Although one can argue that Harrison ‘s origins are not from an upper class, still at the particular moment that he applies his critic against the uneducated and illiterate skinhead he is detached from that person who could articulate in the past. Consequently we can again understand why Harrison has this problematic reception of his own identity as an intellectual middle class individual. It is another clash of who he was and who he became. The fact that he himself he also sprays on the grave is a peak point that conveys multiple meanings. Firstly it shows Harrison‘s compromise with his past, a past that could easily host a touch of a skinhead within him. Surely, we must make a clear distinction that the skinhead who exists in the poet does not share every feature with the him but only the desire to voice his disappointment to the social inequalities, to call the common opinion for understanding the unfair situation and to invite for union using the dual layers of his identity: a working class and an intellectual poet. Some critics argue that the poet acknowledges the skinhead in him as a faulty part of his personality, however towards the end of the poem all these “UNITED” significations are
The opponent linguistic styles that Harrison uses to form the dialogue between skinhead and the poet give the reader a deeper view about their backgrounds and origins. Although one can argue that Harrison ‘s origins are not from an upper class, still at the particular moment that he applies his critic against the uneducated and illiterate skinhead he is detached from that person who could articulate in the past. Consequently we can again understand why Harrison has this problematic reception of his own identity as an intellectual middle class individual. It is another clash of who he was and who he became. The fact that he himself he also sprays on the grave is a peak point that conveys multiple meanings. Firstly it shows Harrison‘s compromise with his past, a past that could easily host a touch of a skinhead within him. Surely, we must make a clear distinction that the skinhead who exists in the poet does not share every feature with the him but only the desire to voice his disappointment to the social inequalities, to call the common opinion for understanding the unfair situation and to invite for union using the dual layers of his identity: a working class and an intellectual poet. Some critics argue that the poet acknowledges the skinhead in him as a faulty part of his personality, however towards the end of the poem all these “UNITED” significations are