Anthony Burgess Five Revolutionary Tones: An Analysis

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One of Anthony Burgess less know works, Five Revolutionary Sonnets, is a section from the novels Inside Mr. Enderby and Ederby Outside. The tone is distinct enough where the reader does not need to look for it. This sonnet takes place where a young man angered man is becoming unsettled with the peace of things surrounding him. He comes across a ‘flame’ that he reads and tells him that he cannot pick up the flower. With him being in a unstable mind he plucks the flower up and a series of actions happen to him, he blinded with color and a shrill of sound makes him disoriented, then all of a sudden he falls. With this sonnet being taken out of a novel it makes it somewhat harder for it to understand the context that surrounds it but overall the

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