"Ambulances by philip larkin" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 1 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Good Essays

    A poem which describes an ordinary or everyday scene is ‘Ambulances’ by Philip Larkin. ‘Ambulances’ is about an ambulance going to take someone away and the neighbourhood is watching what is happening. It shows the curiosity that is in every human being and the inevitability of dying. This essay will discuss how the poet uses an ordinary/everyday scene and make it important and to explore a wider universal theme. The essay will also show how Larkin’s use of poetic techniques makes and ordinary or

    Free Poetry

    • 821 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Throughout his works Philip Larkin shows the ‘emptiness that lies under all we do.’ The way we travel through life riding a wave of superficialities‚ too caught up in the moment to see what is really going on. Larkin aims to alleviate the blindness created by our deep involvement‚ attempting to draw the reader out to see the big picture. In Ambulances he acknowledges death as a device powerful enough to allow people to see beyond themselves and the things surrounding them. The thought of their impending

    Premium Truth Personal life Death

    • 475 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    ambulances by larkin

    • 1179 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Ambulances’ by Philip Larkin Philip Larkin’s ‘Ambulances’ is a poem that describes the literal journey of an ambulance that also takes on an increasingly sinister metaphorical value. The ambulance weaves through the busy afternoon streets‚ demanding the attention of passers-by while forcing the reader to acknowledge the ambulance’s symbolic significance as a reminder of our own mortality. By close examination of the ambulance and its literal movement it is possible to gain a greater understanding

    Premium Stanza Philip Larkin Poetry

    • 1179 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Philip Larkin

    • 1040 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Philip Larkin Philip Larkin‚ is a famous writer in postwar Great Britain‚ was commonly referred to as "England’s other Poet Laureate" until his death in 1985. Indeed‚ when the position of laureate became vacant in 1984‚ many poets and critics favored Larkin’s appointment‚ but the shy‚ provincial author preferred to avoid the limelight. Larkin achieved acclaim on the strength of an extremely small body of work‚ just over one hundred pages of poetry in four slender volumes that appeared at almost

    Premium Pessimism Poetry Life

    • 1040 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Philip Larkin

    • 508 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Philip Larkin was born in 1922 in Coventry‚ England. Like Thomas Hardy‚ he focused on intense personal emotion but strictly avoided sentimentality or self-pity. Deeply anti-social and a great lover (and published critic) of American jazz‚ Larkin never married and conducted an uneventful life as a librarian in the provincial city of Hull‚ where he died in 1985. This short poem touches on a favourite theme of Larkin’s - the distance between what we originally plan and what‚ in the end‚ we achieve

    Premium Thomas Hardy Philip Larkin

    • 508 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Philip Larkin

    • 857 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Philip Larkin demonstrates the use of “piquant mixture of lyricism and discontent” through his poetic explorations in Here and The Whitsun Weddings. Both pieces were published in 1964 as a collection of poems collectively titled ‘The Whitsun Weddings’. In the poem Here you see both lyricism (expression of emotion in an imaginative and beautiful way) and discontent (dissatisfaction‚ typically with the prevailing social or political situation) though in The Whitsun Weddings you tend to see more lyricism

    Premium Industrial Revolution Poetry Philip Larkin

    • 857 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Philip Larkin

    • 814 Words
    • 4 Pages

    "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

    Premium Question Poetry Life

    • 814 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    philip larkin analysis

    • 7816 Words
    • 27 Pages

    Analysis- SELFS THE MAN From the offset‚ we get the sense of a sarcastic‚ cynical and flippant character. “Oh‚ no one can deny / That Arnold is less selfish than I”. The colloquial “oh” gives a sense of how he brushes it off‚ and he seems to be boastful of his selfishness. Into the next few lines‚ he presents a stereotypical image of marriage as entrapment‚ “married a woman to stop her getting away” and the ironic aside‚ ‘Now she’s there all day” as though his “less selfish” friend didn’t know what

    Free Poetry Philip Larkin Stanza

    • 7816 Words
    • 27 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Analysis of Philip Larkin

    • 896 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Analysis of Philip Larkin’s poem ‘First sight’ in relation to the idea of natural progression through stages of life. First sight is an intense yet fulfilling interpretation of a newly born lambs first glimpses of the world. The poem also explores the difficulties the young lamb faces through its first experiences of the harsh environment and how they have to deal with it as they find their feet in the world. Been born in winter the lambs have yet to experience “earth’s unmeasurable surprise” which

    Premium Poetry Season

    • 896 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Here Philip Larkin

    • 1288 Words
    • 4 Pages

    of consumerism. Following the pattern of many other poems in this collection‚ ‘Here’ begins with physical ideas of ‘rich industrial images’‚ before becoming more abstract in the final stanza. By beginning the poem with the participle‚ ‘swerving’‚ Larkin immediately gives the reader a sense of the moment being suspended in the present‚ before an unpredictable‚ fast movement‚ which is not usually associated with travelling on a train. The word itself is sudden‚ describing an immediate action and repetition

    Premium Poetry Stanza Philip Larkin

    • 1288 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Powerful Essays
Previous
Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 50