Response To Aubade
Poetry response to “Aubade”
Charity Ryan
The poem I am responding to is “Aubade,” which is written by Philip Larkin. I looked up the definition of the word Aubade on dictionary.com, and it said that an Aubade is a song or poem of or about lovers separating at dawn. It is also defined as a song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak. Stanza One: The speaker hints that he is at home in his bed. “Waking at the four to soundless dark, I stare.” He wakes up in the middle of the night, and can’t go back to sleep. “In time the curtain edges will grow light.” The poem is written in first person, so I’m assuming that the author is the speaker as well, but I could be wrong. (For some reason, I am inclined to refer to the speaker as a “he.”) At this …show more content…
Perhaps it was only created to give us a purpose. Here is where I can identify just a bit with the speaker because I often go through periods of weakness myself, and I convince myself of this very thing. “No rational being can fear a thing it will not feel, not seeing that this is what we fear.” Some people think that you shouldn’t fear death because you supposedly cannot feel it. However, this concept is what scares the speaker the most. Can you imagine not seeing or touching, or hearing? Not thinking? Not being? Wouldn’t you rather only feel pain that not feel anything at all? In line 29, Gunn writes “Nothing to love or link with.” This seems to be a reference to relationships. Up until this point, the speaker seems to be a lonely, negative obsessed man. Now we see that perhaps, he isn’t as crazy as previously believed. He is capable of love, of having a relationship with someone. He’s just a normal person. He could be your neighbor, your best friend, or even
Charity Ryan
The poem I am responding to is “Aubade,” which is written by Philip Larkin. I looked up the definition of the word Aubade on dictionary.com, and it said that an Aubade is a song or poem of or about lovers separating at dawn. It is also defined as a song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak. Stanza One: The speaker hints that he is at home in his bed. “Waking at the four to soundless dark, I stare.” He wakes up in the middle of the night, and can’t go back to sleep. “In time the curtain edges will grow light.” The poem is written in first person, so I’m assuming that the author is the speaker as well, but I could be wrong. (For some reason, I am inclined to refer to the speaker as a “he.”) At this …show more content…
Perhaps it was only created to give us a purpose. Here is where I can identify just a bit with the speaker because I often go through periods of weakness myself, and I convince myself of this very thing. “No rational being can fear a thing it will not feel, not seeing that this is what we fear.” Some people think that you shouldn’t fear death because you supposedly cannot feel it. However, this concept is what scares the speaker the most. Can you imagine not seeing or touching, or hearing? Not thinking? Not being? Wouldn’t you rather only feel pain that not feel anything at all? In line 29, Gunn writes “Nothing to love or link with.” This seems to be a reference to relationships. Up until this point, the speaker seems to be a lonely, negative obsessed man. Now we see that perhaps, he isn’t as crazy as previously believed. He is capable of love, of having a relationship with someone. He’s just a normal person. He could be your neighbor, your best friend, or even