Larkin Critical Flashcards
Larkin (emotions)
‘It’s unhappiness that provokes a poem. Being happy doesn’t provoke a poem.’
motion (death)
Death, in Larkin’s view, is an utterly comfortless blank
Cox (existence)
‘Larkin feels cheated by existence’
Cox (ruining)
“Birth, death, funerals, love and marriage are all degraded at Larkin’s hands”
Timms
Images are chosen from the ordinary and ordinary is used in bodied the poets convictions
Allen-Randolph
“Duffy shares Larkin’s tragic view of life”
motion (love)
Larkin persistently explores the gap between what he expects of love and what it provides
Appleyard
Locking has often been regarded as a hopeless and inflexible pessimist
Regan
the poet attempts to articulate the values and meanings of contemporary society
larkin (parents)
“the only marriage i know is bloody hell
Swarbrick
his writing is driven by a sense of failure
Swarbrick
images drawn from advertising is because they represent society’s collective desires’
