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What does Fanthorpe have to say about power and control in 'you will be hearing from us shortly,' and 'dictator'?
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... What does Fanthorpe have to say about power and control in 'you will be hearing from us shortly,' and 'dictator'? Both poems have a sense of someone being controlled by someone who is higher then they are. What I think Fanthorpe is trying to make a point about is that we as humans are shallow, we judge before we actually get to know people properly. We will not change our minds about someone quickly as we base people on our first judgement of them, which is usually wrong. In 'you will be hearing from us shortly' the person is so unimportant to the interviewer that no matter what their answer to a question is, it is always wrong. We as the reader knows that the answer will be wrong so we do not need to see the interviewee's answer. Fanthorpe has purposely left a big gap between the interviewer's questions and
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