books. The title is a mock‚ serious title for it sounds like a piece of academic research Larkin uses first person persona to give expression to things he would prefer not to have attributed to himself. The structure of the poem divided into three stanzas; school years‚ adolescent years and the present. The tone is sarcastic and colloquial‚ that along with the shorter lines‚ creates a less serious poem from Larkin. In the first part of his journey‚ the persona is imaginative and loves to read‚ so
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Analysing The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin Esther Amankwah Juxtaposition is used in the third stanza through “sun destroys”‚ which is very effective as it suggests the sun‚ a nurturing element that provides life can be an intense and powerful thing‚ emphasising that the heat was very strong that its source forced the writer to look at the parts it highlighted as opposed to the shade. The metaphoric
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Lines On A young lady’s photograph album At last you yielded up the album‚ which Once open‚ sent me distracted. All your ages Matt and glossy on the thick black pages! Too much confectionery‚ too rich: I choke on such nutritious images. My swivel eye hungers from pose to pose -- In pigtails‚ clutching a reluctant cat; Or furred yourself‚ a sweet girl-graduate; Or lifting a heavy-headed rose Beneath a trellis‚ or in a trilby-hat (Faintly disturbing‚ that‚ in several ways) -- From every
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by pointless rituals and as is obvious by his lodgings‚ did not deserve any better. Write two short analyses of Mr Bleaney‚ arguing the two positions above. The poem Mr Bleaney can be interpreted into different views according to the reader. Larkin could have attempted to portray him to be trival and only living through the motions however‚ he could have also portrayed him to be trying to escape his empty environment in search of something better. The second statement of "Mr Bleaney leading
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Personal Response to Mr Bleaney In the poem Mr Bleaney by Philip Larkin the poet portrays a theme of loneliness. And not only does the poem suggest a feeling of solitude and emptiness the poet also deliberately uses langue and poet techniques to emphasise the theme he’s going for. The title of the poem itself is of a person whose first name is unknown to us. It creates a sense that it is irreverent to us and that Mr Bleaney is not of much importance. The lacking of strong syllables in the title
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Philip Larkin- “Here” analysis Nick Webb The poem "Here" by Philip Larkin is a descriptive poem on Larkin’s travel from the countryside to the city of Hull‚ where Larkin lived for the last thirty years of his life. The descriptive words used to describe the motion of his journey "swerving" (which is repeated throughout the 1st stanza to represent movement) and “harsh-named halt" suggest a train journey in
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There are only a few similarities between ’Afternoons’‚ by Philip Larkin‚ and ’Churning Day’‚ by Seamus Heaney. These feature mainly in the structure of the two poems. They both use enjambment for the whole length of the poem‚ with just one end-stopped line present in each. Enjambment gives both poems a sense of continuous movement. This is appropriate in ’Churning Day’ as it represents the motion of the person churning the butter. It also makes the voice of ’Churning Day’ sound out of breath‚ as
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“Larkin is pre-eminently a poet of loneliness and loss.” How far do you agree with this statement? Make reference to the poems we have read so far in your response. Philip Larkin‚ one of Britain’s best loved poets‚ was known for his often unenthusiastic outlook towards life and the people that surrounded him. His poems have the proclivity to show the ways in which Larkin was dissatisfied with his own life‚ and not just the life of the persona in the poem. As well as loneliness and loss‚ other
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comparison of two poems‚ Follower’ by Seamus Heaney andImitations’ by Dannie Abse The Poems Follower’ and Imitations’ are very alike in some ways but different in others. They have obvious points of comparisons and yet behind both poems is an individual story. Seamus Heaney‚ born in 1939 into a farming family‚ wrote Follower’. He is Britain’s most admired poets and won the nobel prize for literature in 1995. Dannie Abse wrote Imitations’‚ he was born in 1923 into a Jewish family in Cardiff. They
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The poem Mr Bleaney has three characters: Mr Bleaney; the house owner; and the new tenant‚ but centres around the life of one character‚ Mr Bleaney. The poem focuses on the house in which Mr Bleaney had a rented room for a number of years‚ until he moved out‚ or perhaps died. A new tenant is introduced to the vacated room‚ and he decides to stay. From the description of his old room and its contents‚ we are able to paint a picture of Mr Bleaney’s monotonous existence and lifestyle. There is great
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