Born Yesterday Flashcards
Title
AO3) For Sally Amis - Daughter of Kingsley Amis - Larkin’s fellow movement writer friend.
Sets out tone as less cliche and more pragmatic when exploring ideas of societal expectations.
Literally ) Child born yesterday - foolish and naïve - foolish to follow superficial needs and expectations
Tightly folded bud
Comfortable
Well rested
Protected
- naïve to the burdens future life will present,
Bud - flower - not grown/out of her shell - metaphor
usual stuff
Reductive.
Speakers dividing himself, setting him away from typical society.
stuff - vague language - unimportance of societal expectations
being beautiful
plosive alliteration
of innocence and love
Physical separation between expectations of society and his judging tone, afterwards. Condescending done
Basic expectations of women
should
modal axillary verb
well,
scepticism.
unrealistic expectations from society
caesura - infers hesitation
lucky girl
doubt
but
volta
you be ordinary
suggesting you can be content with being mediocre
by perusing expectations, you may lose sight of who you are
may
verb - more gentle - giving permission - less forceful tone
diff from society’s harsh tone
suggests society and its voice expect women to, unrealistically, be perfect and unattainable
like other women
being average is completely fine
not, not, nothing
negators.
not being bound to societal expectations is what makes you happy.
perhaps our happiness can be found in what we dont have, not what we possess. freedom from society and its expectations
dull
society is deceived-
-
parenthesis
not being materialistic.
contemporary - negative
larkin - positive, keep to urself, focus on urself,
your intellectual knowledge instead of beauty
emphasises list of remarkable features women should have
