Afternoons Flashcards
1
Q
Summer is fading
A
Unhurried loss
2
Q
Behind them
Before them
A
Slow process of change
Spectators in their own life
3
Q
Routine
A
Assemble
Estate full of washing
Expect to be taken home
4
Q
Enjambemnt
A
Between 2 and 3 stanza
Process of change - some things don’t change
5
Q
Something is pushing them to the side of thei own life
A
Melancholy
Something unnamed has made then unimportant
6
Q
Unripe acorn
A
Hopes won’t ripen into mature creation
Like parents life
7
Q
Phillip Larkin
A
Popular Poet
Disliked fame
Restricted life - no relationship
8
Q
Form structure
A
3 unrhymed 8 line stanzas
No fixed pattern - uncertainty of families
No rhyme - lives fail to rhyme
