Philip Larkin
"Larkin is a poet of grey moods, suburban melancholy and accepted regrets." Do you agree or disagree
You can look out of your life like a train and see what your heading for, but you can't stop the train. This was one of Larkin's famous quotes. It means life keeps going on, even when there's a bump on the road and you need to stop, but you just simply can't stop life. You have to be patient and flow through life until its time. This however, definitely composes Larkin as a poet who articulates grey moods, suburban melancholy and accepted regrets. Good morning teacher and fellow students. These three themes that Larkin convey are expressed clearly in his poetry Aubade and Toads.
The term Aubade means a morning love song. In general it is written about when lovers separate at dawn. However, in this poem the lover is death, and when daylight appears his lover 'death' will dispel away, and that's what makes Larkin fear. Larkin's fear of death demonstrates his ongoing grey mood and that holds him back. The unconditional pondering of death being closer with each time he awakes drills into his mind making Larkin petrified, he express this through the use of personification saying "Unresting death, a whole day nearer now." Now this is why Larkin is poet of grey moods, because Larkin believes that his life is just waiting for death to come, counting down the days until one day he's gone. Larkin then realises that death will be there to hold and horrify. This alliteration emphasises his fear of death, which as result consumes most of his time.
Correspondingly, Larkin writes another poem, Toads. Larkin uses a rhetorical question asking why should I let the toad work, squat on my life? Can't I use my pitchfork and drive the brute off? This rhetorical question he asks is him complaining about the exhaustion of work. The first five stanzas in the poem show Larkin's grey moods as it's how Larkin feels about working. He hates that he has to work six days of the
You can look out of your life like a train and see what your heading for, but you can't stop the train. This was one of Larkin's famous quotes. It means life keeps going on, even when there's a bump on the road and you need to stop, but you just simply can't stop life. You have to be patient and flow through life until its time. This however, definitely composes Larkin as a poet who articulates grey moods, suburban melancholy and accepted regrets. Good morning teacher and fellow students. These three themes that Larkin convey are expressed clearly in his poetry Aubade and Toads.
The term Aubade means a morning love song. In general it is written about when lovers separate at dawn. However, in this poem the lover is death, and when daylight appears his lover 'death' will dispel away, and that's what makes Larkin fear. Larkin's fear of death demonstrates his ongoing grey mood and that holds him back. The unconditional pondering of death being closer with each time he awakes drills into his mind making Larkin petrified, he express this through the use of personification saying "Unresting death, a whole day nearer now." Now this is why Larkin is poet of grey moods, because Larkin believes that his life is just waiting for death to come, counting down the days until one day he's gone. Larkin then realises that death will be there to hold and horrify. This alliteration emphasises his fear of death, which as result consumes most of his time.
Correspondingly, Larkin writes another poem, Toads. Larkin uses a rhetorical question asking why should I let the toad work, squat on my life? Can't I use my pitchfork and drive the brute off? This rhetorical question he asks is him complaining about the exhaustion of work. The first five stanzas in the poem show Larkin's grey moods as it's how Larkin feels about working. He hates that he has to work six days of the