An Arundel tomb
- Created by: Laurenlauritzen
- Created on: 01-02-15 16:50
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- An Arundel Tomb
- Overview:Larkin went to Arundel cathedral with girlfriend in chicister. Love for one another could just be an interpretation of the art- may have not even loved each other. False love and hope emerges from poem
- Themes: love and relationships, appearance and reality, time and its passing (erosion of time on perception).
- 'Side by side'= together in unity.
- 'Faces blurred'= time eroded the stone, not clear.
- 'Vaguely shown'= perception not clear, what time has done.
- 'lie in stone'= factual but effigy is lie, emphasises the stone.
- Stanza 3: philosophic part of poem, cynical, questioning.
- Stanza 4: how the world is changing around them.
- 'Thrown off'= distraction, oxymoron, juxtaposition.
- 'Latin'= no longer main language, people cant read it, shows how times change.
- 'Lengths+ breadths'= gives time solidity, making it a forceful presence, tangible.
- Stanza 5: like a cycle shows how time passes, life and death cycle.
- 'What will survive of our love'= time can be destructive yet creative. People changing things into what they want.
- 'Hardly'= has nothing to do with reality of their lives but its all that's left of them, hard like rock.
- 'Scarp of history'= insignificant in the grand scheme of things.
- Last line: seems to be positive wants to believe but part of him is sceptical,
- Things aren't always what they seem.
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