Afternoons Quotes + Context

Question 1

What type of poet is Philip Larkin? (era)

Answer 1

Modern poet - 1950s

Question 2

What type of poem is Afternoons?

Answer 2

Observational poem - comments on everyday life

Question 3

What type of voice did Larkin have?

Answer 3

Radical voice in British Society

Question 4

What did Larkin reject?

Answer 4

Poet Laureate

Question 5

When was Larkin writing?

Answer 5

In post-war Britain

Question 6

What line suggests a fading of the season and foreshadows the change to women’s lives?

Answer 6

Summer is fading

Question 7

What quote suggests that the women’s afternoons are nothing?

Answer 7

hollows of afternoons

Question 8

What quote suggests domestic life is a prison?

Answer 8

Setting free their children

Question 9

What metaphor suggests that the children are ruining their lives?

Answer 9

the wind

Question 10

What quote suggests the children are looking for love themselves?

Answer 10

Finding more unripe acorns

Question 11

What quote suggests the women are growing older even if they are young?

Answer 11

beauty has thickened

Question 12

What line suggests the children are taking over?

Answer 12

the side of their own lives