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Unread 06-04-2013, 06:52 AM
Chris O'Carroll Chris O'Carroll is offline
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Originally Posted by John Whitworth View Post
It has occurred to me that in my poem the phrase 'working classes' might be 'lower classes' or even 'lower orders'. Any views, Sphereans?
The phrase didn't jump out as me as a problem when I first read the poem. But now you mention it, use of the term 'working classes' might be taken to imply some degree of sympathy with Marxist analysis, whereas 'lower orders' conveys a more unconflicted High Tory outlook.
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