larkin context/critics w poems Flashcards

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Here

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“His poetry simply reflected his own life” - Golding

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Mr Bleaney

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“Larkin is a hopeless + inflexible pessimist” - Appleyard

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Nothing To Be Said

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“Some people are optimists + some people are pessimists” - Booth

“Larkin feels cheated by existence” - Cox

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Love Songs in Age

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Larkin was a professional music critic

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Broadcast

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“Only in Broadcast does the second person appear” - Patrick

Maeve Brennan

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Faith Healing

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“Larkin feels cheated by existence”

Larkin was an atheist

Larkin’s father told him to “never believe in God”

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For Sidney Bechet

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Larkin loved jazz; but was also a racist

“Larkin is a hopeless + inflexible pessimist” - Appleyard (COUNTER-he isn’t in this poem)

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Home is so Sad

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“My mother was a rambling fool” - Larkin

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Toads resisted

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Larkin never retired - worked until death

“Larkin’s poetry simply reflected his own life” - Golding

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Water

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Larkin an athiest

Larkin’s father told him “Dont believe in God!”

“Delighted in whom he offended” - Golding

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The Whitsun Weddings

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“The unmarried observer, a staple in Larkin’s poetic world” - Martin

Larkin never married

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Self’s the Man

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“The unmarried observer, a staple in Larkin’s poetic world” - Martin

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Take One Home for the Kiddies

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Larkin loved animals

“Larkin respects the nonhuman otherness of animals” - Booth

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Days

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Larkin was a nihilist

“Larkin is a hopeless + inflexible pessimist” - Appleyard

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MCMXIV

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Larkin could not fight in the war bc his eyesight was too bad

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Talking in Bed

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Larkin’s parents had a toxic marriage

Larkin never married

“Love + marriage are all degraded by Larkin’s hands”

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A Study of Reading Habits

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Larkin was a librarian

“Larkins fury against women is an external battle within himself” - Rossen

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As Bad as a Mile

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Larkin was a nihilist

“To Larkin, life appears as a continuous series of setbacks, as one long process of delay” - Herold

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Ambulances

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Larkin was a nihilist

“The Whitsun Weddings dwells on the futility of existence” - Golding

“Larkin feels cheated by existence” - Cox

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The Importance of Elsewhere

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1st person

Half rhyme

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Sunny Prestatyn

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“Larkin was accused of misogynistic enjoyment of female degradation” - Booth

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Dockery and Sons

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Changing rhyme scheme - diff paths ppl choose

Nihilism

“The Whitsun Weddings dwells on the futility of existence” - Golding

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Ignorance

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“There are limits to our knowledge of time + the areas beyond our limits aren’t accessible to the human mind” - Hobsbaum

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Reference Back

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“My mother was a rambling fool” - Larkin

Worked as a jazz correspondent for Daily Telegraph

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Wild Oats

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Ruth Bauman + Jane Exoll
L was engaged to Ruth

“Let me remember the only married state I know is bloody hell” - Larkin

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Essential Beauty

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Afternoons

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“The unmarried observer, a staple in Larkins poetic world.” - Martin

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An Arundel Tomb

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“Love ins’t stronger than death just because statues hold hands for 600 years” - Larkin

Larkin often visited cathedrals/churches with Monica Jones- ironic bc he was an atheist