Susan Stewart A Language Essay

George Orwell’s text “Politics and the English Language” speaks about “standard English.” Most people would understand and agree that the society that is presented to people that use a lot of improper pronunciations or would write “correct grammar and syntax.” In the passage, Susan Stewart’s poem ”A Language”, she presents a language in a different manner by giving language a much more sentimental feel, showing how words can be used to suggest a host of emotions.
In the passage “Politics and the English Language”, Orwell states, “I think the following rules will cover most cases” after he included some of the rules, which assist us to advance the way we write. One of the rules states, “Never use a long word where a short one will do”. The tips that he gives to people not only help people have a better understanding on how to write, but they also teach us how we can express ourselves.
“ It’s like teaching a stunt to an animal--a four-legged creature might prance on two legs or a two-legged creature might fall onto four.” The drifting represents putting off words and pointing in different directions represents getting one’s meaning clear. So basically what this mean is that people in the society that is presented today has to use words that have a meaning to it. People this days don’t speak the proper way that they were taught in school. They speak the way the language was presented to them when they were a child. This is why Stewart and Orwell have two different ways of explaining language because they want people to learn the proper way how to