Larkin Critical Quotes Flashcards
1
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Larkin
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‘Deprivation is for me what Daffodils were to Wordsworth’
2
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Larkin
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‘Nothing, like something, happens everywhere’
3
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Larkin
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‘What will survive if us is love’
4
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Larkin
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“Im just an anonymous figure who people will dimly remember seeing when the evening paper says ‘Hull man dies’”
5
Q
Andrew Motion
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“A very English, glum accuracy about emotions, places and relationships”
6
Q
Heaney
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‘Larkin is daunted by both life and death’
7
Q
Larkin
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‘I am going to the inevitable’
8
Q
Larkin
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‘I’m terrified of the thought of time passing’
9
Q
Neumann
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poems involve “withdrawal, isolation and self depreciation”
10
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Gilson
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“The roots of his poetry in everyday experience… layered with the breathtaking beauty of his spare language first flourished in Belfast”
