Larkin Poems Themes Flashcards
what themes are explored in Wires?
- social norms and conformity
- decision making and missed opportunities
- travel, place and space
- aging
- illusion and reality
what themes are explored in Next, Please?
- This England and Illusion vs Reality
- The Passage of Time
- Missed Opportunities and Decision-Making
what themes are explored in Wedding-Wind?
- Voice
- The Individual and Society; Social Norms and Conformity
- Love, Relationships and Desire
- Illusion and Reality
what themes are explored in Places, Loved Ones?
- Love
- Place
- Time
- Missed Opportunities
what themes are explored in Coming?
- the natural world and its impact on humanity
- the passage of time and the experience of aging
what themes are explored in Reasons for Attendance?
- social norms and conformity
- desire
- decision-making
what themes are explored in Going?
- aging and the passage of time
- the inevitability of death
what themes are explored in Born Yesterday?
- social conformity
- passage of time and experience of aging
what themes are explored in Wants?
- the individual and society; social norms and conformity
- death and mortality
what themes are explored in Maiden Name?
- love, relationships and desire
- the passage of time and the experience of aging
- missed opportunities
- social norms
- deception
what themes are explored in No Road?
- the passage of time
- love and relationships
- Trauma and the Experience of Healing
what themes are explored in Toads?
- social norms and conformity
- missed opportunities and decision-making
- voice
- working obligations and internal motivation
what themes does Larkin explore in Poetry of Departures and how does he present them?
- 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
what themes are explored in church going?
- The passage of time
- religion
what themes are explored in I Remember, I Remember?
- The passage of time and the experience of aging
- missed opportunities
what themes are explored in At Grass?
The Passage of Time and the Experience of Aging
what themes are explored in Arrivals, departures?
missed opportunities and decision making; apathy, inertia, stagnation
