Larkin as Love and pessimistic
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- Created on: 14-05-15 13:56
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- Larkin's presentation of love reflects fundamentally pessimistic view of life
- Intro: pessimistic view of love but also uniquely defends power, brutality. All poems failure. But knows human need for love.
- paradoxical alignment of love's untruth and its beauty allow larkin successfully write about failure to materialise lobe & humans need to love
- Afternoons
- Cycle of love
- domestic life being like autumn myth promised romance whitsun weddings
- inevitable decay of 'hollow' domestic life and routine.
- 'summer fading' marriage expectations fade
- Mundane reality of love
- 'albums' climax youthful, romance is discarded in empty matter of meaningless marriage
- honey moon phase over pun 'lying' = stillness + deceptive nature of love
- Alternatively, Larkin's view of love is not without beauty
- 'beauty thickened' by time more robust and dignified
- Cycle of love
- An Arundel Tomb
- stillness beautiful tomb survived over time = power of love
- 'holding hands' supposed to symbolise love and devotion however carver done it as compassionate grace
- undermines this inconclusive metaphor suggest emptiness of mankind's romantic notion that love can transcend time
- stillness beautiful tomb survived over time = power of love
- 'holding hands' supposed to symbolise love and devotion however carver done it as compassionate grace
- 'blurred' = no meaningful definition. Faceless couple impersonality resilient to time - love victim of time
- stillness beautiful tomb survived over time = power of love
- Beautiful portrayal of love alternatively
- 'snow' 'summer' positive images = persistence of love
- stillness beautiful tomb survived over time = power of love
- Whitsun Weddings
- Lack of individuality + social expectation of love
- social conformity cheapening it to 'wholly farcical'
- 'new and nondescript' vulgar superficiality of celebrations
- Alternatively anticipation for the future
- 'swelled' = positive
- Lack of individuality + social expectation of love
- Wild Oats
- cynical views
- ironic humour courting process
- cheap love 'ten guniea ring' anti climax collapse ironic memory
- fatasy and desire between women
- ironic humour courting process
- cynical views
- Conclusion: despite focus on limiting domesticity in 'afternoons' the 'illusion' in 'wild oats' and the ultimate unability to endure love in 'whitsun' love is never an unambiguous subject.
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- Intro: pessimistic view of love but also uniquely defends power, brutality. All poems failure. But knows human need for love.
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