In similar vein to Cooper, Stephen Regan notes in an essay entitled "Philip Larkin: a late modern poet" that Larkin frequently embraces devices associated with the experimental practices of Modernism, such as "linguistic strangeness, self-conscious literariness, radical self-questioning, sudden shifts of voice and register, complex viewpoints and perspectives, and symbolist intensity".
In fact, I think The Dream Songs are this book's main source of inspiration; not only are the entries given a regular structure, but the fusion of high/low references, the exploration of inner demons both sexual and murderous, and the constant shifting of voice, subject, and object all owe a debt to Barryman's poems.
This study investigates the effects of language shift on voice source and perceptual voice quality.
This shifting of voices and stories, ranging back and forth in time and place, may sound dauntingly complicated; luckily, it doesn't read that way.
"With a light shift of her voice, she commands a rebellious child to kiss her goodbye; with an unobtrusive gesture, she flicks an ironing board from a sofa so that a lounging and slightly fatuous college boy can relax in a tenement," Kerr wrote.
Even when Sly is being the real Sly, Mr. Dreyfuss casually shifts tones of voice: sometimes sounding like Walter Brennan, sometimes like, well, Richard Dreyfuss.
The shift of food voices in my writing is rather prevalent.
You enter through shadows to a shifting hum of voices, filling the darkness like the spirit of the beehive.
Watching it, after a few first minutes of resistance, I let myself fall into the shifting swirl of voices and movements.
Both suggest shifting your tone of voice to excuse yourself, while referencing what you have to do (wash hair, get back to work, early night).
