In Harrison's sonnet `A Good Read' he presents a hostile argument between his father and himself. The use of direct speech gives the audience a very real insight into the underlying conflict between them, education and more precisely books. Also, the sonnet form allows Harrison to create a moment monument, expressing tremendous emotion in the strict structure of the sonnet

Harrison meditates on the past and reports a summer when he was a student, `That summer it was Ibsen, Marx and Gide.' This gives us a clear insight into Harrison's knowledge as a scholar, for they all are extremely sophisticated influential men who expressed themselves through writing, like Harrison.

The dialogue couplet from Harrison's father that follows is Pinteresque as there is subtext to the statement; it demands a deeper thought process for it has underlying meaning:

`ah sometimes think you read too many...