Duffy and Larkin Critical Views Flashcards
Outsider - Cox (Larkin)
‘reflects his own sense of detachment and disillusionment’
Pessimism - Appleyard (Larkin)
‘a hopeless and unflexible pessimist’
Bigotry - Jandine (Larkin)
‘casual, habitual racist and and an easy misogynist’
Melancholy - Homberger (Larkin)
‘saddest heart in the post-war supermarket’
Post-war society - Swarbrick (Larkin)
‘testify a post-war economic recovery and society pursuing its fantasies and illusory satisfactions in material possessions’
Style - Larkin
‘sad-eyed realism’
Time - Swarbrick (Larkin)
‘pay homage to human qualities of sympathy and persistence which resist the passage of time’
Nostalgia - Viner (Duffy)
‘filled with lost loves and yearning for the past’
Love - Preston (Duffy)
‘love involves as much suffering as it does joy’
Society - The Economist (Duffy)
‘spoken in the voices of the urban disaffected… who harbour resentment and grudges against the world’
Thatcherite era - Greenlaw (Duffy)
‘articulates that bankrupt and dislocated era’
Loneliness - Allen-Randolph
‘Duffy shares Larkin’s tragic views of life… loneliness haunts her verse’
O’Reilly - Tone (Duffy)
‘both serious and humorous, often writing in a mischievous, playful style’
Synaesthesia - Swale (D)
‘her recollection of the past is always physically realised, often recalling all 5 senses’
Poetic persona and disappointment - Barnes (L)
‘like a squeezed flannel of disappointment’
Death - Motion (L)
‘death, in Larkin’s view, is an utterly comfortless blank’
