My Bleany- Everyday

Question 1

Overall

Answer 1

-shows the theme of everyday through a depiction if life defined by routine
-shows that the seemingly inconsequential elements of daily life reflect broader existential concerns

Question 2

“Flowered curtain thin and frayed” “ bed, upright chair sixty watt bulb”

Answer 2

-enjambment
-highlights the ordinariness and bleakness of the room showcasing life to its bare essentials
-fricative alliteration
- reflects the mundane reality of mr bleanys life and existence and by extension the speaker as well

Question 3

“Strip of building land” “tusskosy” “littered”

Answer 3

-the imagery emphasises the desolation of the environment
-reinforces the idea that ordinary life is often associated with neglect and void of beauty or excitement

Question 4

Characterisation of my bleanys habits and lifestyle “preference for sauce to gravy” “frequent visits to ‘frinton folk’” “Christmas at his sisters”

Answer 4

-paints a picture of mr bleany enriched in routine
-his habits profile a life of complete ordinariness and predictability

Question 5

‘Where mr bleany lay”

Answer 5

-speaker now inhabits mr bleanys former room lying where he lay
-the speaker is now physically occupying mr bleanys former position

Question 6

“1st person’

Answer 6

-blurs the lies between persona and mr bleany
Suggesting the ordinary existence exemplified by mr bleany is not a unique but a universal condition
-linking to Larkin =s affiliation of the movement which focuses on the common experience

Question 7

‘Telling himself that this was his home, and grinned and shivered without shaking off dread”

Answer 7

-profound realisation that a life measured by such ordinary moments may come with an underlying sense of inadequacy or dread
- reveals that the everyday life when viewed from a distance os seen as empty or lacking fulfilment

Question 8

Existential message embedded in its depiction of ordinariness “how we love measures our own nature”

Answer 8

-suggests that the way we live even if mundane/everyday/ ordinary is a reflection of ones self worth

Question 9

Ordinary life represented by “hired box”

Answer 9

-becomes a metaphor for a life that offers little to show for itself
-makes readers question whether simplicity and a lack of distinction are inevitable or a result from personal or social limitations

Question 10

‘Warrented no better”

Answer 10

-persona acknowledges mr bleanys accepted his life of ordinariness in his everyday routine because this is what her believed
-but its really a projection of the personas own self doubt, he settled for a mediocre everyday life and might even deserve it

Question 11

Rhyme scheme

Answer 11

-write in quatrains
-ABAB
-mirrors the regularity of mr bleanys everyday routine
-occasional enjambment “why he kept on plugging” and cesuras “he was at the bodies, till they moved him”
Add ellemsts of surprise that keep the verse from being unbearably monotonous
-could reflect the speakers resistance too to the everyday routine that trapped mr bleany
-sytanx of the final sentence is almost straining against the poems formal limits reflecting the personas attempt to do so as well