"Telephone Conversation," by Wole Soyinka and "You will be hearing from us shortly," by U.A.Fanthorpe both deal with prejudiced attitudes through the language and tone of the three speakers.

... Twentieth Century Poetry Coursework Niall O'Connor 5E2 5LK Miss Shelagh O'Connell "Telephone Conversation," by Wole Soyinka and "You will be hearing from us shortly," by U.A.Fanthorpe both deal with prejudiced attitudes through the language and tone of the three speakers. "You will be hearing from us shortly," by U.A.Fanthorpe, depicts the degrading process of being interviewed and only the interviewers voice is conveyed to us. This is done to create a patronizing, condescending and haughty tone. At the beginning of the poem the tone seems polite but the sub-text is invariably insulting. This becomes more obvious as the poem progresses. The title "You will be hearing from us shortly," is a cliché and is always heard in reference to the application of jobs and auditions. The cliché is not genuinely enthusiastic but typically aloof. It sets the tone of the poem in this way as the title is a phrase an unimpressed

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