Afternoons Flashcards

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poet

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Philip Larkin

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date

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1959

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3 quotes

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  • in the hollows of the afternoons young mothers assemble at swing and sandpit setting free their children
  • and the albums, lettered Our Wedding, lying near the television; before them, the wind is ruining their courting-places
  • their beauty has thickened. something is pushing them to the side of their own lives
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context

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  • post-war poet that was a foremost member of the Movement who wrote with irony and honesty about society shadowed by ww1
  • lived overlooking a park and playground and he never left the UK
  • most of his works were very pessimistic
  • he never married or had children
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