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Larkin Poems Themes Flashcards

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what themes are explored in Wires?

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  • social norms and conformity
  • decision making and missed opportunities
  • travel, place and space
  • aging
  • illusion and reality
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what themes are explored in Next, Please?

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  • This England and Illusion vs Reality
  • The Passage of Time
  • Missed Opportunities and Decision-Making
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what themes are explored in Wedding-Wind?

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  • Voice
  • The Individual and Society; Social Norms and Conformity
  • Love, Relationships and Desire
  • Illusion and Reality
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what themes are explored in Places, Loved Ones?

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  • Love
  • Place
  • Time
  • Missed Opportunities
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what themes are explored in Coming?

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  • the natural world and its impact on humanity
  • the passage of time and the experience of aging
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what themes are explored in Reasons for Attendance?

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  • social norms and conformity
  • desire
  • decision-making
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what themes are explored in Going?

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  • aging and the passage of time
  • the inevitability of death
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what themes are explored in Born Yesterday?

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  • social conformity
  • passage of time and experience of aging
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what themes are explored in Wants?

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  • the individual and society; social norms and conformity
  • death and mortality
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what themes are explored in Maiden Name?

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  • love, relationships and desire
  • the passage of time and the experience of aging
  • missed opportunities
  • social norms
  • deception
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what themes are explored in No Road?

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  • the passage of time
  • love and relationships
  • Trauma and the Experience of Healing
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what themes are explored in Toads?

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  • social norms and conformity
  • missed opportunities and decision-making
  • voice
  • working obligations and internal motivation
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what themes does Larkin explore in Poetry of Departures and how does he present them?

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  • Presentation of Work and social conformity
  • Larkin uses dual voice to portray the rebellion against the societal obligation to work in 2 contrasting ways: one in which abandoning work responsibilities is freeing and individualises people; another in which abandoning work responsibilities is cliched and foolish
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what themes are explored in church going?

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  • The passage of time
  • religion
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what themes are explored in I Remember, I Remember?

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  • The passage of time and the experience of aging
  • missed opportunities
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what themes are explored in At Grass?

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The Passage of Time and the Experience of Aging

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what themes are explored in Arrivals, departures?

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missed opportunities and decision making; apathy, inertia, stagnation

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