Larkin-Duffy Mindmap
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- Larkin & Duffy: Links and Analysis
- Hope
- An Arundel Tomb
- Prayer
- Ultimate lack thereof
- Mr Bleaney
- Ultimate lack thereof
- Mr Bleaney
- Close
- Love
- An Arundel Tomb
- Love
- Childhood
- A Study of Reading Habits
- Stafford Afternoons
- Awareness of darker "adult" events of life; innocence of childhood lost
- Take One Home for the Kiddies
- 50s advert jingl; ANIMAL CRUELTY
- Take One Home for the Kiddies
- Awareness of darker "adult" events of life; innocence of childhood lost
- Captain
- Change from childhood to adulthood
- A Study of Reading Habits
- Browning = dramatic monologue
- Patriarchy
- "d d d" = master; notable man
- Churchill & (Lord) Nelson = mil. & pol. power
- Grammar schools ; Convent schools
- Empire
- Maps = colonial territories = pink
- "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" = final line of Yeats poem - 'Among School Children' - h frailty & inevitability of death
- Change from childhood to adulthood
- Take One Home for the Kiddies
- 50s advert jingl; ANIMAL CRUELTY
- Identity
- Persona
- Captain
- A Study of Reading Habits
- Arrogance
- Captain
- Arrogance
- Self's the Man
- Gender
- Havisham
- Gender
- Havisham
- A Study of Reading Habits
- An Arundel Tomb
- Captain
- Change from childhod to adulthood
- A Study of Reading Habits
- Change from childhod to adulthood
- Havisham
- Loss
- An Arundel Tomb
- Loss
- Persona
- Death
- Decay
- Disgrace
- Relationships
- An Arundel Tomb
- Relationships
- Home is so Sad
- Never Go Back
- of place of sentimental value
- Home is so Sad
- of place of sentimental value
- An Arundel Tomb
- Disgrace
- Ambulances
- Inevitabiliyt; Fate
- Suicide
- Inevitabiliyt; Fate
- Suicide
- AAT
- Antiquity; figurative death of Identity
- Havisham
- Antiquity; figurative death of Identity
- Havisham
- Decay
- Betrayal
- Home is so Sad
- Loved ones & Idealism
- Adultery
- Loved ones & Idealism
- Havisham
- Too far to go back
- Self's the Man
- Too far to go back
- Adultery
- Self's the Man
- Home is so Sad
- Loneliness
- Mr Bleaney
- Loss
- Pluto
- Loss
- Love Songs in Age
- Havisham
- Isolation from society
- Love Songs in Age
- Isolation from society
- Pluto
- Mr Bleaney
- Decay
- Disgrace
- Relationships
- Relationships
- Never Go Back
- of place of sentimental value
- of place of sentimental value
- Disgrace
- Disappointment
- "overwhelmingly pessimistic"
- Mr Bleaney
- Home is so Sad
- Place of sentimental value
- Never Go Back
- Place of sentimental value
- Captain
- in present life
- Mr Bleaney
- in present life
- Never Go Back
- Loss
- Havisham
- Genuinity of love
- The Whitsun Weddings
- Genuinity of love
- An Arundel Tomb
- Time, identity, legacy
- Pluto
- Time, identity, legacy
- The Whitsun Weddings
- Pluto
- Havisham
- Memory
- Moments of Grace
- Effect of past on present
- Dockery & Son
- 1962
- Dockery & Son
- Effect of past on present
- An Arundel Tomb
- Dockery & Son
- 1962
- Pluto
- Loss
- An Arundel Tomb
- Loss
- Moments of Grace
- Mentality
- Perception
- Romance
- Valentine
- The Whitsun Weddings
- Consumerism
- The Whitsun Weddings
- Talking in Bed
- Loneliness
- Havisham
- Loneliness
- Valentine
- Romance
- The Whitsun Weddings
- Suicide
- Loneliness
- Mr Bleaney
- Loneliness
- Mr Bleaney
- Perception
- Pain
- Never Go Back
- Mr Bleaney
- Home is so Sad
- Decay of place of sentimentl value
- Never Go Back
- Decay of place of sentimentl value
- Havisham
- Caused by others / self
- Mr Bleaney
- Caused by others / self
- Past
- Time
- Havisham
- Loss of ID
- An Arundel Tomb
- Loss of ID
- Dockery & Son
- An Arundel Tomb
- Mean Time
- Change
- Dockery & Son
- Greenwich
- Idiom = between signif events
- "Mean" = destructive; average (univ)
- Change
- Havisham
- Transition
- Never Go Back
- Urbanisation
- T S Eliot (The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock) = journey as metaphor for exploration of consciousness
- A Study of Reading Habits
- Home is so Sad
- Havisham
- Never Go Back
- Pluto
- Past-present difference
- Dockery & Son
- Past-present difference
- Dockery & Son
- An Arundel Tomb
- Loss; decay
- Havisham
- Loss; decay
- Havisham
- Time
- Society
- Consumerism
- Sunny Prestatyn
- Femininity, materialism
- Litany
- prayer led by leader, diff answers (simultaneous) from congregation / lengthy repetitive chant
- Litany
- Femininity, materialism
- Litany
- prayer led by leader, diff answers (simultaneous) from congregation / lengthy repetitive chant
- Valentine
- The Large Cool Store
- Sunny Prestatyn
- Place
- Never Go Back
- Decay of past
- Home is so Sad
- Decay of past
- The Importance of Elsewhere
- Home is so Sad
- Stafford Afternoons
- Isolation v Belonging
- The Importance of Elsewhere
- Isolation v Belonging
- Never Go Back
- Religion
- Prayer
- Subversion
- Water
- Subversion
- Faith Healing
- Water
- Confession
- Subversion
- Faith Healing
- Subversion
- Prayer
- Gender
- Havisham
- Social expectation
- "Spinster"
- "stink and remember"
- deviant collocation
- "Havisham"
- twist on Dickens (1861)
- Persona
- "the bride within the bridal dress had withered"
- "shrunk to skin and bone"
- twist on Dickens (1861)
- "Spinster"
- Violent
- Entrapped in loss; rep's male domination
- Social expectation
- Self's the Man
- Antagonisation of Arnold's wife
- "the money he gets [...] She takes as her perk"
- Manipulation
- "It's Put a screw in this wall"
- Antagonisation due to the wife's behaviour that's in opposition to expected subservient housewife
- "He married a woman to stop her getting away / Now she's there all day"
- Context: private sphere
- "the money he gets [...] She takes as her perk"
- Antagonisation of Arnold's wife
- Sunny Prestatyn
- Captain
- Objectification of Women
- Sunny Prestatyn
- Sexual
- "tautened white satin"
- "Hotel with palms / Seemed to expand from her thighs"
- Sexual objectification of women = £ SEX SELLS
- "slapped up"
- "snaggle-toothed"
- "Huge **** and a fissured crotch"
- "A tuberous **** and balls"
- "She was too good for this life"
- Idealisation of female sexuality - virgin/whore dichotomy
- Patriarchal dominance
- "She was too good for this life"
- Patriarchal dominance
- "A tuberous **** and balls"
- Disrepect
- "Huge **** and a fissured crotch"
- Violence
- "snaggle-toothed"
- "Hotel with palms / Seemed to expand from her thighs"
- "like Mick, my lips numb as a two-hour snog"
- Ironic
- Persona's arrogance
- "I want it back. The captain. The one with all the answers"
- "Rhodesia. My country."
- "Stale wife"
- "thick kids"
- "I want it back. The captain. The one with all the answers"
- Persona's arrogance
- Zeitgeist
- Jagger = rebel; heartthrob
- "My name in red..."
- Jagger = rebel; heartthrob
- Ironic
- "tautened white satin"
- Societal Dominance
- Stereotyping
- Sexual
- "tautened white satin"
- "Hotel with palms / Seemed to expand from her thighs"
- Sexual objectification of women = £ SEX SELLS
- "slapped up"
- "snaggle-toothed"
- "Huge **** and a fissured crotch"
- "A tuberous **** and balls"
- "She was too good for this life"
- Idealisation of female sexuality - virgin/whore dichotomy
- "She was too good for this life"
- "A tuberous **** and balls"
- Disrepect
- "Huge **** and a fissured crotch"
- Violence
- "snaggle-toothed"
- "Hotel with palms / Seemed to expand from her thighs"
- "like Mick, my lips numb as a two-hour snog"
- Ironic
- Persona's arrogance
- "I want it back. The captain. The one with all the answers"
- "Rhodesia. My country."
- "Stale wife"
- "thick kids"
- "I want it back. The captain. The one with all the answers"
- Persona's arrogance
- Zeitgeist
- Jagger = rebel; heartthrob
- "My name in red..."
- Jagger = rebel; heartthrob
- Ironic
- "tautened white satin"
- "convent girls"
- Virgin/Whore dichotomy
- "Do Wah Diddy Diddy"
- Baby Love
- Oh Pretty Woman
- Oh Pretty Woman
- All songs about women
- Zeitgeist
- Baby Love
- "over pink pavements / that girls chalked on"
- Colour imagery
- Sexual
- Intolerance
- Stereotyping
- "convent girls"
- Virgin/Whore dichotomy
- "Do Wah Diddy Diddy"
- Baby Love
- All songs about women
- Zeitgeist
- Baby Love
- "over pink pavements / that girls chalked on"
- Colour imagery
- "convent girls"
- "Dyke Hill"
- Context: Illegal
- Stereotyping
- Stereotyping
- Focuses on patriarchal dominance
- Persona's intellectual superiority reflects his superiority as a male; arrogant as intellectual & male
- Androcentric; Embodiments of Masculinity
- Societal Dominance
- Intolerance
- "Dyke Hill"
- Context: Illegal
- "Dyke Hill"
- Intolerance
- "the white sleeve / of my shirt saluted"
- "Sir! ... Correct"
- "Churchill Way"; "Nelson Drive"
- "Sir! ... Correct"
- Societal Dominance
- Objectification of Women
- Havisham
- Consumerism
- Love
- An Arundel Tomb
- Havisham
- Loss
- An Arundel Tomb
- Loss
- Valentine
- Commercialism
- The Whitsun Weddings
- Commercialism
- The Whitsun Weddings
- Context
- Duffy
- Born 1955
- Poet Laureate = 2009 (Scottish gay female)
- Roman Catholic -> atheist
- Moved to Stafford when 6
- "all childhood is an emigration"
- Other collections: Standing Female Nude (85); The World's Wife
- Mean Time pulished 1993
- Degree = Philosophy
- Lesbian
- iNFLUENCES
- Literary
- Modernism (not associated but themes and techniques)
- the Beat poets
- Untitled
- Philosophy
- Wittgenstein (philosophy of language)
- Social
- Feminism
- Greer
- Adrienne Rich
- 60s = second wave
- LGBT rights
- Lesbian
- 'Swinging Sixties' = sexual liberality
- Feminism
- Literary
- Larkin
- Personal
- Hull
- Bleaney - few poss's
- Fears death
- Atheist
- Bachelor
- Hull
- Literary
- Same time; disassociated with 'The Movement'
- Socio-Historical
- Consumerism
- Urbanisation
- House destroyed by new road built
- Media manipulation
- Sexualisation of females
- sexual liberation
- 'Free Love' movement
- sexual liberation
- Sexualisation of females
- Urbanisation
- sexual liberation
- 'Free Love' movement
- Social expectations
- Comics establish masculinity, British & Xian values
- Consumerism
- Personal
- Duffy
- Critics
- Larkin
- Orwin
- things themselves are capable of storing memories to confront us with when we least expect it
- "in typical Larkin style he shows us the joy of life, love and happiness by making us recognise that we missed out
- "love seemed derisory in the face of death" - Amis
- "everything else coloured by death"
- "don't you think it's absolutely shameful that men have to pay for women without being allowed to shag the women afterwards as a matter of course?"
- "everything else coloured by death"
- "sought to juxtapose sympathy and self-islating acerbity in all he wrote" - Burt
- Through the Lens of Larkin (BBC)
- "post-war austerity"
- "curious, despondent beauty"
- "life is first boredom then fear
- Marsh - "lifeless and fixed"
- Andrew Motion
- "obsessed with the destructive passage of time"
- "visionary gleam"
- Dubrow - "ask the reader to stand inside the poem and survey its contents"
- Wilson - "a very sick man"
- Eagleton - "****** up his readers by seducing them into his own dingy world of boredom, self-pity and disgust"
- Prof Lucas - "solipsistic enclosedness"
- Dr Bhabha - "ennobled by his own pessimism"
- E - "death-obsessed, emotionally-retarded misanthropist"
- Orwin
- Duffy
- Cash
- Duffy demonstrates how the movement of time is responsible for radical change - Cash
- "change in her suburban world is never for the better, it inevitably involves loss" - Cash
- "tender treatment of the theme of loss"
- "human life promises little and delivers less"
- Bleiman
- "Duffyesque"
- Raban - "Larkinesque"
- "a strongly subversive streak"
- "unashamedly political"
- "a deilberate and sustained re-writing of cultural history
- "the personal and the political are deeply intertwined"
- "Duffyesque"
- Brittan = "overstated"
- "I don't think poetry needs to be outside to be written, poetry can be written from the inside"
- The Scotsman: "magnificent, grounded, heartfelt, dedicated to the notion that poetry can give us the music of life itself"
- Larkin
- Orwin
- things themselves are capable of storing memories to confront us with when we least expect it
- "in typical Larkin style he shows us the joy of life, love and happiness by making us recognise that we missed out
- "love seemed derisory in the face of death" - Amis
- "everything else coloured by death"
- "don't you think it's absolutely shameful that men have to pay for women without being allowed to shag the women afterwards as a matter of course?"
- "everything else coloured by death"
- "sought to juxtapose sympathy and self-islating acerbity in all he wrote" - Burt
- Through the Lens of Larkin (BBC)
- "post-war austerity"
- "curious, despondent beauty"
- "life is first boredom then fear
- Marsh - "lifeless and fixed"
- Andrew Motion
- "obsessed with the destructive passage of time"
- "visionary gleam"
- Dubrow - "ask the reader to stand inside the poem and survey its contents"
- Wilson - "a very sick man"
- Eagleton - "****** up his readers by seducing them into his own dingy world of boredom, self-pity and disgust"
- Prof Lucas - "solipsistic enclosedness"
- Dr Bhabha - "ennobled by his own pessimism"
- E - "death-obsessed, emotionally-retarded misanthropist"
- Orwin
- Boland - "explores edges of comedy which position her in an almost bardic way, ready to recover and articulate lost details of the tribe"
- "memories return to linger over moments of transient happiness and connection [...] human experience is measured against the inevitability o mortality and time's monumental capacity for indifference to human need" - Lewison
- O'Riodan
- Cash
- Larkin
- Hope
- Golding
- wide-ranging indictment of society's norms"
- "infintely preferable, in his view, for everyone to resign themselves to their identical destinies and accept the implacable emptiness of their lives
- "love is the greatest illusion of them all"
- "infintely preferable, in his view, for everyone to resign themselves to their identical destinies and accept the implacable emptiness of their lives
- wide-ranging indictment of society's norms"
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